# My back hurts after a good night's sleep?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-back-hurts-after-a-good-nights-sleep/323712>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 27, 2005, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-back-hurts-after-a-good-nights-sleep/323712 "2005-09-27T18:05:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-back-hurts-after-a-good-nights-sleep/323712/21 "2014-01-06T21:23:30Z")

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> [@lycemail](#):
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> About 10 days now but really strange as I was on a trip and slept on the same mattress for 14 days and then day 15 and 16 my back was killing me.

Sleeping on a strange mattress, especially one that’s well-used and fairly old, can definitely knock things out of whack. Last year I spent nine days in a seedy motel and my back was literally screaming by the end of the vacation. (A visit to the back doctor fixed everything, though.) Buying a brand new mattress is usually pretty safe, back-wise.

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**Author:** ![junglegrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8491ac/32.png) [@junglegrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/junglegrrl)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-back-hurts-after-a-good-nights-sleep/323712/22 "2014-01-06T21:29:08Z")

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btw i used pillows in the ways mentioned and they helped some but the kicker was the wheat. It is super hard, esp if you eat out to avoid it, but if you can do so for a week or two the pain should disappear entirely (assuming you are dealing with the same issue)

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