She gets also gets neck pain. she is a side sleeper.
We have tried sleep number, tempurpedic, and a bamboo memory foam. We are now looking at a Sealy memory gel bed.
Would you recommend this. We have an adjustable bed and the salesman told my wife to try to sleep in the zero gravity position at night.
She tried that last night, and it didn't work out well.
I weigh 215 and 6 foot in height she is 5 feet 7 and had a titanium rod put in her hip after she broke it.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, Bruce
Hi Bruce,
Memory foam is a temperature sensitive material. As it warms from your body's heat, it sinks. The underlying foam, that supports it, is stiff and hard.
Besides fighting that rod in her hip, it throws off the alignment of her spine, which isn't helping her sciatica any.
Memory foam is the absolute worst material ever invented for use in or as a mattress. Even your Sleep Number air mattress had memory foam inside.
Not to mention that an air mattress provides lousy support, all on it's own.
Have you noticed how hard memory foam sold...heavily advertised, and pushed by salespeople?
You must have thought they had your best interest at heart. Why else would you continue to buy a product that doesn't work?!
You must not have, up till now, realized, that it's the memory foam causing her so much pain, or you wouldn't still be considering buying it again.
You, your wife, your neighbor and his wife, the butcher around the corner and the secretary at your office, all have one thing in common....the human body.
Everyone's body is essentially the same, and just a little different.
Good basic support and comfort is easy to address. It's in fitting all the small differences, that is the challenge.
However, the same basic rules apply to all, to some degree.
What every body needs is firm support and comfortable sleeping surface that allows for a greater depth of sleep.
I believe that all those memory foam salespeople have promised that to you...and you can see how poorly their advice has worked.
The purpose of memory foam is to make the sale. It's comfortable enough, initially...but not worth a damn before too long.
So, getting what you need isn't difficult. There are tons of mattresses that will provide you firm support and a comfortable sleeping surface.
What you have difficulty finding, is a mattress with quality components, so that it will stay that way for a respectable period of time.
In all facets of life, it is unreasonable to expect a different result from repeating the same behavior.
If you like the way things are going, keep doing what you're doing. If not, you have to make a change.
In this case, the change is away from memory foam to latex.
Latex is natural rubber and has been the best material available anywhere on the planet, for use in or as a mattress, for the past 100 years.
This isn't just an opinion. It's a proven, undisputed fact.
Your skeletal system needs firm support to maintain its alignment
When you have back problems, you are more sensitive to the changes a mattress goes through as it wears.
For you, a person without back problems, you are not affected by those changes.
For your wife, the smallest changes can result in that nerve in her lower back being pinch by the vertebrae...sending that pain around her hip and down her leg. (Sciatica)
When the padding on top of the mattress sinks in, as your memory foam does, her hip hits the hard foam under it and the result is the pain for her.
There aren't a lot of choices for you on most showroom floors, when you're looking for this "right" mattress. The great majority of them won't do the job.
An individually pocketed coil unit provides contouring support...support designed to maintain the natural alignment of your spine.
The best type of mattress that provides this type of support, is The Natura of Canada Greenspring.
The coils are more numerous and stronger than most others of its kind.
What's more the upholstery is Natural Talalay Latex, which provides cushioning, but won't allow you or her to sink.
Latex is both, comfortable and resilient. It holds you up and provides the feeling of "Floating".
What's more, latex is the longest lasting upholstery material available...remaining like new for many years.
Of the 4 models in their line, the Ultra Plush is the most comfortable, and the one I recommend for the two of you.
These mattresses have NO Memory Foam.
That mattress, shown on this link:
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The Liberta Firm Mattress delivers improved well being and scrumptious comfort with eco-friendly flair. A layer of NaturaWool™ maintains temperature control and gently buffers pressure points to diminish nighttime tossing and turning.
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Also, that adjustable bed base isn't helpful for anything other sitting up to watch TV.
It has little to no therapeutic value. When sleeping, it needs to be flat, in order for her spine to maintain its proper alignment.
This will also relieve the pressure at her hip.
It's the finely chopped latex that allows you to form the mattress around your head and neck anyway you want...which is what relieves the pain.
In this, it behaves like a down pillow...which why they call it Latex/Down.
Unlike a down pillow that flattens out within a week, latex lasts for years.
Here is a link to that pillow.
The pillow arrives via UPS.
The mattress comes with White Glove Delivery, which includes set-up in your bedroom and removal of your old mattress.
Both are delivered free and there's no sales tax.
