What kind of mattress do you sleep in and would you buy the same one again.?
I have used water beds. The kind with the long tubes. They are a pain to fill and difficult to wrestle with. After a few years we got leakers. Had to keep tearing the bed apart and replace tubes. My wife bitched endlessly but I was doing the work.
We replaced it with the foam type. Tempupedic memory foam . My wife ife says I quit snoring since we got it. She didn’t. I like it fine. Lots of back support no matter how I sleep. Wife likes it a lot. If door is open ,beagles like it too.
They are supposed to be free of bed mites.
Probably better in IMHO, as the OP is looking for opinions.
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I have a futon mattress on the floor…in my closet. I’m in college and it kind of suits me. It isn’t super comfortable, but I like a firm mattress, so it doesn’t really bother me too much. I’m hoping that I will one day own a real bed and will probably never repeat this sleeping setup again.
I have no idea what effect it has on my snoring as I’m currently sleeping alone. The closet has the occasional spider and I have no doubt that the futon mattress, which has been passed down from one college kid to another for about six years now, has mites of some sort. Really, I’m a bit surprised that I don’t have fleas or something from sleeping on it.
I have a sleep number bed and absolutely love it. My SO and I prefer opposite extremes of bed firmness, so the dual control is perfect for us.
The support level is consistent across the entire area, and I appreciate being able to change the support level if I’ve hurt my back, or I’m sick and don’t want to sleep on my stomach, or what have you. I never realized what poor quality sleep I was getting until we got this bed. It was expensive, but worth every penny.
How expensive. was it. ?I have trouble believing the ads. Air mattresses are comfortable enough but how can air chambers be that expensive. However the foam was about 1k but offers all round support.
I have an off brand Wal-Mart brand tempur-pedic style mattress (not a topper, the whole mattress) and it’s the best money I’ve ever spent in my life. I have a crazy bad back (all of my thorasic and lumbar dics are fused) and I sleep like a baby. It was only about $300 for the queen size and man, WORTH IT. I have it on top of a regular box spring.
We have the Temperpedic. I think we paid something like $1700 for a double mattress and the foundation. Best return for that amount of money that I know of. It is heaven to sleep on. It is firm but not hard. It responds slowly (over a matter of 2-4 seconds) to your body movements. It also responds to body temperatures.
If you try one out in a store, you have to be willing to get still on one to understand the complete benefits.
Re: the Sleep Number Bed
It was ~$2200 for the dual-chamber king size with a pillowtop all told. (We got it during a sale, which they seem to have frequently.) It is nothing like an air mattress, if that’s what you’re thinking. It doesn’t feel like one at all- as you change the firmness, it feels like you are dialing up a different mattress underneath your body. I imagine it’s expensive because they are able to make the chambers such that each side feels perfect for the sleeper (yet totaly different), all the way to the edges and the middle.
We chose that over a temperpedic or foam style so that we could change the support as we saw fit. Another reason is that I am usually a stomach sleeper and have arthritis, so I need a specific kind of support that foam style mattresses, no matter how expensive, just don’t give.
I have an Ortho, Royale PS, from their retail store, very nice and firm enough to suit me. It goes well with my Makura. The mattress cost $350 plus $25 for the delivery.
Except for the dual control part (mine is a full size, intended for one person) - I could repeat this post.
I love the sleep number bed. You can take it away from me when you wrest it from underneath my cold, dead, but incredibly well rested body. When it’s time to replace it, I’ll definitely get another.
It was more expensive than traditional mattresses (and I even got the cheap model), but very much worth it.
I have a Simmons Beautyrest with a pillowtop. Ohhhhhhhhhhhh my gosh so comfy sleeping in a marshmallow puurrrrrrrrzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…
Yeah. I love it. I never really hated traveling until I had that mattress at home and knew just how good life could be. A great combination of firm support with a soooooft, pillowy top.
We have the Sealy Posteurpedic pillow top…Like Sattua said it’s amazing…I’m actually typing on my lap top on it right now, the best thing I like about it is the fa…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
At the end of last year I bought a Kingsdown Dormo Diagnostics mattress. Yes, it cost $3500 for the mattress and box springs.
For the past several years, I suffered chronic back and neck pain that I had believed was due entirely to stress and long hours sitting at a computer for work.
Almost from the day I brought this puppy home, I have been utterly pain free. This was perhaps the best $3500 I have ever spent.
I sleep on a futon, and I’m a responsible adult. We’ve found that the firmness rocks and you never notice when the other person moves. When I’ve tried sleeping on normal mattresses I get back aches, especially the soft ones. I might be a futon-for-life person. I’ve been sleeping on futons since like 1983 (move to Hawai’i) with only brief intermissions, and I don’t see spending 3500 to get a futon-like effect, and I’ve almost convinced my SO. Your miles may vary.
Low-motion waterbed here. We’ve had the bed for more than twenty years, and replaced the mattress once. Every so often it makes the odd bubble sound (always makes me think the bed’s tummy is rumbling) but I love it, overall. There are really only two problems with it. First, just about the time I drift off my husband moves more toward the middle of the bed, which makes me start to roll into him, so I have to shift backward. I’ve finally started to get smart enough to settle a little farther away from him in the first place. It only took me twenty years to figure that out.
The other problem is that now I have trouble sleeping on other beds. I used to be able to sleep on any kind of bed, so traveling wasn’t a problem for me. Now I wake up several times a night to change position. It helps if I keep a pillow between my knees, but sometimes I forget that, or there isn’t one handy.
Full flotation water bed. We’ve owned the bed for over twenty years, have replaced the liner twice, mattress twice (for about $40 each time) and the heater I think 3 times (switching from 110 to 220 and back; not for heater failures.) I still love the bed and have trouble sleeping in other beds, but my husband is thinking about getting something different.
I must say I’m a little dissappointed with the Sleep Number bed. The pressure is different if you are sleeping alone rather than with a mate. If I have the number dialed in all groovy for me, then Hoosier Daddy gets on his side, it puffs my side up a little and then I need to dial it down some.
I was sleeping on various futons for years, and I ended up in tremendous pain. As you say, YMMV.
Tempurpedic [sp?]. Top of the line, most expensive queen size. It is the matress with the pillow top attached. $3K! Finally paid it off last year. I figure I’ll never have to buy another matress, nor my kids.