A thousand dollars? I don’t recall spending anywhere close to that even originally. I don’t NEED memory foam here. I’ve never even tried it.
Anyway, I sleep okay most nights, but there are quasi regular times I definitely feel the age of the mattress.
My elderly parents have been sleeping on the same mattress for 40 years. Recent report is that it is just fine. Regular turning so the wear is even.
Yes, thank you for the lesson on what I should have done.
Unless your point is that I should put this into consideration for what I buy next, in which case maybe I should look at foam for that reason alone.
Just buy a whole darn mattress, such as this one (listed at $260 for a queen). Don’t bother with a pad. I did this a few years ago and it’s worked great.
It comes in a tube. You open up the packaging and FOOOMP - a whole freaking mattress expands out of the thing. You leave it outside in the sun a couple days to outgas all the fumes that were keeping the plastic pliable so it can expand like this.
The first time I lay down on it…ah. You can instantly tell it’s the good stuff. It’s totally silent, you kind of sink into the foam leaving an inprint temporarily, you can sleep in a lot more positions and it’s still comfortable, etc etc. I just left the old boxspring under it, though you can also get a platform bed (just a sheet of wood and drawers under it) and slap the memory foam mattress right on top. You do not need anything underneath it, it works perfectly alone.
I could see a memory foam pad on top of a spring mattress. I would NOT want just a memory foam mattress on box springs. When I was driving, they gave me just a memory foam mattress for the sleeper. It wasn’t all that good and I was very happy to swap it out for a new spring mattress.
This.
Insomnia can feel like you have been awake for a year and a half.