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View Poll Results: Which Matress would you choose? | |||
Air - Select Comfort | 2 | 13.33% | |
Memory foam - Tempor-Pedic | 8 | 53.33% | |
Innerspring - pillow top | 3 | 20.00% | |
Innerspring - foam top | 2 | 13.33% | |
Voters: 15. You may not vote on this poll |
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01-23-2010, 11:43 AM | #1 |
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Mattress Shopping
I'm in the market for a new mattress and I am having trouble deciding which way to go, so here's a poll.
Which mattress would you choose? Gosh Durn It! Typo in my poll...:p |
01-23-2010, 12:18 PM | #2 |
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Pete and I are about to start looking. I'd like to here folk's opinions on this as well.
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01-23-2010, 12:24 PM | #3 |
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I swear it was me in chat last nite not Pico n Me
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01-23-2010, 12:26 PM | #4 |
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Hmmmm....what I miss in chat?
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01-23-2010, 12:35 PM | #5 |
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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.
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01-23-2010, 12:36 PM | #6 |
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I have an innerspring double pillow top (that I use with a really GOOD mattress cover) but if I could do it all over again I'd get the memory foam one. Then I'd put a glass of wine on it and jump up and down on it!
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01-23-2010, 01:15 PM | #7 |
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I said "memory foam" but I'd never get one. I'm a firm, latex foam mattress kinda person. You really 'sink' into memory foam, and that gets hotter than hell. I like a cooler environment for sleeping. The latex has all the other benefits (vibration isolation, durability, etc.)
They're about twice as expensive as a spring mattress up front, but they'll last for 30 years!! and can be used on a platform bed. I really dislike tall beds. We've had our Firm Talalay Latex mattress for 6 years now, and it hasn't changed a micron. We're both lard-asses too, so it has stood up to our combined weight very well. We're about to upgrade to a king-sized bed, and will be using the same vendor.
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01-23-2010, 01:19 PM | #8 |
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I have a plain old regular mattress. I love it.
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01-23-2010, 01:31 PM | #9 |
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Yabbut, you're a buns of steel buff nugget. A 20 year-old futon wouldn't make a dent in you.
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01-26-2010, 10:53 PM | #10 |
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I just bought a memory foam mattress because I have back damage also. It is great! I haven't been able to sleep in a bed more than a few hours a night, and now I'm spending almost 8 hours there. My girlfriends like it too.
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01-27-2010, 08:10 AM | #11 |
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I have a good regular mattress with a camper or ( regular ) foam pad on top. (not the bumpy ones )which I don't like either. I like the regular foam pads because doesn't swallow a person like the memory foam does.
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01-27-2010, 09:28 AM | #12 | |
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So with this mattress you have... it doesn't flatten out? I've thought about getting that Tempor-Pedic, but was always leary about it. |
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01-27-2010, 02:50 PM | #13 |
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It doesn't flatten. We've never turned it. It's good at reducing motion transfer too (keeps your tossing and turning from waking your partner!)
Honest, enthusiastic endorsement here! ETA: we killed our previous expensive, orthopedic inner-spring mattress in 3 years, so I feel your pain.
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01-27-2010, 02:54 PM | #14 |
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Hmmm...Pie, I think You are selling me on a latex mattress. I need soft but firm and the reduction in motion transfer....a lot.
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I'm almost ready to try tin cans wrapped in baggies. I paid a small fortune for that thing I'm sleeping on - they brag on a 15 year warrantee (doesn't cover normal settling from body weight). Thanks Pie... I'm gonna surprise my wife as soon as I save enough to buy one. First I need to see if she's allergic to latex. |
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