Maybe you can help. I have to run and bbl, but I've decided bentfeather has to get one. Wrote this last night:
"We agree to disagree but a firm bed is wrong for what you have even if the dr says otherwise. Firm beds cause all the symptoms you're talking about. I broke a vertebra in my back 40 years ago and wore braces for 10 years till neighbors talked us into trying a waterbed and I have never looked back. Five nights on the waterbed and I haven't worn a back brace more than 3 or 4 times in 40 years! Just like the guy with the Percocet, the pain was gone.
"I can't tell you the agony I suffer when traveling, and we stay at only the best. Each night passes with increased tossing and turning an trying to get comfortable. When you are sleeping on the waterbed you do not move; you're out like a light. You are floating on fluid the same temperature as your skin. It's a virutal womb; you can't say it's not comfortable. And the more open the mattress the better; baffles ruin the effect. The open mattress is the cheapest mattress. too. It was the ONLY mattress when I started buying them, but they are still the most relaxing and the one you should get. Heated."
I talked hubby into it when we got married and now he can't sleep on a reg. bed at all. ESpecially since he had treatment for a herniated disk a couple of years ago. As for getting out of them: I roll to my tummy, get on all fours and step my leg off. It's easy!! Even 9 months preggo!! :o) I do differ in one thing: we have baffles because hubby is VERY prone to sea-sickness. We even got one for the farm. AND, one thing I have noticed anytime I sleep on a regular mattress is that my hands are always asleep when I wake up. That almost NEVER happens on the waterbed!! :o)