[squirell nutkin]

About 13 years ago I was in a rear -end collision, the guy who hit me totaled my pick up, and I had chronic and debilitating neck pain that lasted a few years. I lost about 15% mobility in my neck and have permanent partial numbness in my dominant hand, loss of strength, coordination, etc.

About six months to a year after the accident The pain was so intense I couldn't sleep more than an hour or two a night and not consecutively.

I had tried everything short of morphine to ease the pain and get some rest.

We bought a tempurpedic and read up on it watched the video etc. The one ting they don't tell you is that the thing outgasses like mad for a few weeks. Really strong smell of vanilla and some kind of chemical. I'd let it air out in the garage or on a porch or in a guest room with the windows open. It's not entirely unpleasant, just distractingly strong.

It takes a while to get used to the feel of it, and after a week I was able to sleep for the first time in a few months. It did not make the pain go away.

After a year of 3x weekly chiropractic visits, and after seeing about four different chiropracters, I met a nutrionist who changed my diet a little, had me take some Standard Process supplements and in a week most of my pain had gone. and by a month I was pain free.

I still have the mattress, but at 13 years it is losing its short term memory. I'll walk out of the bedroom and come back in and it will ask who I am.

Probably time for a new one.