Posted on 01/24/2023 10:00:42 PM PST by Kevin in California
OK, as I've gotten older, I now realize how important sleep is and I'm not getting much of it of late.
I'm about 190lbs and sleep with a CPAP machine. I bought a Sealy mattress (queen-foam) this past summer and it was nice and firm for awhile. Now, it's like sleeping in a crevice and very uncomfortable. I like a firm mattress that holds its firmness with little or no sinkage.
Any mattress gurus out there that can give me some guidance? I have $1K to burn. I just want my sleep back as I'm miserable.
y6our suggestion to try different hotels is something I di by accident.
I found one place that had a mattress I absolutely loved and got the name of it. (I think it was a mid-range Sealy)
I also slept in one place that had the best pillows I had ever used. Unfortunately I didn’t get the name. And I actually tried to do a search through my travel records to try to figure it out, with no luck.
But, it’s not possible for everyone to try random hotels- I just happened to have to travel for work a lot and found out by accident what huge difference a good mattress can make.
I had one of those in college. Why in the world would you do that to your guests!?
I like a hard mattress. I love love love the fatty mattress from Brooklyn. (I am about 200 lb) It is supple yet firm as can be.
It is the best mattress I have experience in my life and being built for Godzilla, probably the last mattress I will ever need to buy. You can shoot pool on it yet it yields enough for comfort. My back issues are gone. IMHO soft mattresses mess up your back.
https://brooklynbedding.com/products/titan-luxe-hybrid/queen-no
ps. Been sleeping on it for 2 years and they have been glorious sleep years. The mattress is like it was day 1. No wear at all. No sagging, nothing. It is like day 1. Lower back thanks me every time I lay down.
bkmk
Futons are great.
We got a queen size futon that fit on a folding sofa-style frame for our guest room in about 2004. Eventually it became our son’s bed, when he was in middle school. It is far and away the most comfortable mattress in the house. We just happened to live near a futon store when I bought our futon, so I tried each grade/thickness before buying. I bought the second most expensive one because it felt better than the cheaper models and tied with the highest priced one.
It’s basically a big, well-packed pile of cotton on a wooden platform. There is nothing that can break. I wish we had this for the master bedroom.
MY experience with “pillow top” mattresses leaves me DISINCLINED to buy a matters with an integrated pillow top.
I’d buy a traditional, medium-to-firm mattress, and get a SEPARATE “pillow top” of my preferred thickness, and consistency; if I even got one at all, because it’s the pillow top that tends to develop “the trough” before the mattress coils start sagging.
I sleep on a medium feel Stearns & Foster mattress of traditional construction (their old “Ambiance” line, FWIW), I have a quilted mattress pad ~1/4” thick, and my head — along with my CPAP gear (minimalist AirFit10 nasal pillow) — is couched in the luxury of one of Mr. Lindell’s My Pillows.
IF I were to get a pillow top for the mattress, it’d be one of these:
https://www.mypillow.com/mattress-toppers/2-mattress-topper-new
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Latex is the best mattress material I’ve come across, takes decades to begin to lose firmness. I love my Pranasleep, pricey but you may find a deal.
In middle age, my wife and I finally got a king size. We found a hyper firm innerspring, flippable and 4 way turnable mattress. No pillow, gell or foam of any kind. It’s deep and quite heavy but my wife still rotates it at will (I do it when if I’m not at work). Whenever we start to feel too much compression or sag, we flip and/or rotate and voila, like new!
We got it less then $1K, I think through Amazon. I post the brand later.
I had the same issue. I bought a sleep number bed. It was pricey but they finance. You can adjust the firmness, elevate the head or foot (or both) and there is a night lite feature for when you get up in the middle of the night.
The people come, install the bed and take the old bed away.
I am 76 and at this age sleep is problematic so this has really been a blessing.
Good luck.
I had the same issue. I bought a sleep number bed. It was pricey but they finance. You can adjust the firmness, elevate the head or foot (or both) and there is a night lite feature for when you get up in the middle of the night.
The people come, install the bed and take the old bed away.
I am 76 and at this age sleep is problematic so this has really been a blessing.
Good luck.
We’ve bought all out mattresses from Original Mattress Factory and been very satisfied.
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Just bought a Winkbed Luxury Firm. Got rid of the tempur-pedic I paid a ton for years ago.
Winkbed is supposed to be great for backs. im 6’1” 200 and so far its been great at 1 week in. Free shipping and returns and a lifetime warranty.
It’s more than $1k but cheaper than others and long-term comfort is worth the extra.
that’s nothing, I slept on a cold concrete floor and used my shoes for a pillow...
then I sobered up and they let me go home!
im happy with a Boyd engineered mattress part latex no memory foam or gell. 10 years and still firm/comfortable cant flip it due to design but can rotate it. Boyd kensington
cool for warm climates
I get what used to be known as an hotel quality innerspring. One that is flippable. Put on heavy duty box spring. And make sure the boxspring is supported fully with heavy wood supports across the area that your body rests. Doubles and queens can bow believe it or not.
Then purchase a latex foam non gel 3 inch mattress topper. Expensive.
Plan on flipping the mattress at least 2 x per year and the topper quarterly.
Replace topper about ever 3 to 5 years.
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