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My back is a mess; ostheoarthritis of the spine, degenerative discs, bulging L4, L5, L5s1 in my lower back, and two more in my neck. Surgery is not recommended at this time. I live with the pain as best I can. I'm hoping maybe a new mattress will help. The Sealy Pillow top Posturepedic ain't cutting it anymore- I wake up sore as hell every morning. If I weren't swimming and hanging like a bat on my inversion table, I probably wouldn't be walking all too well.

Anyone have experience with Select Comfort (Sleep Number), TempurePedic (memory foam), or Duxiana (Dux bed)?
From the bit of research I've done, these are considered to be the best of the best for those with my condition. I'm kind of leaning towards the Sleep Number; I know a few guys with back trouble that said theirs really helped.
Jim

ime if you're single invest in a good bed.


if married, spend the loot on a really comfortable couch

these rock if you are a costco member
NovaForm

we've had ours 4 years and still love it

My back is a mess too. There is a mattress somewhere on my bed, I haven't seen it in years.. I usually end up sleeping on top of 4 dogs and three cats that have made it their home.

Temper-Pedic - well worth the money. I, too, had back problems ( although not as bad as yours ), and after a few weeks with the Temper-Pedic, they went away. Very nice mattresses.

didnt have the $2000 to drop on a Tempurpedic matress that we wanted.....to get by for now we bought 2 memory foam mattress toppers, one is a 3 inch 5 pound density, the other a 4 inch 4 pound density and these sit on top of a really firm normal mattress......i love the stuff.....when i first bulged the two disks in my lower back the only time i was without pain was when i laid in bed, took the pressure off those two disks.....we purchased the toppers from overstock.com and picked them up for about $320 total.....if yah have the money i recommend going with the real deal....if you dont the toppers seem to be a good way to tide yah over until yah got the money for better....

Tempurpedic is top notch, in my experience.

Avoid Sleep Number beds like the freaking plague. I stayed one night in a Radisson, and they "feature" Sleep Number beds. It was the most uncomfortable rack I've ever slept on.

Tempurpedic lives up to its reputation. I love ours.

When single. I slept on a water bed. Great for 1, not for 2.

Are the Tempurpedic beds hot?

the toppers arent to me and i tend to sleep hot anyway.....havent noticed that they are any different than a normal mattress in that respect....

Good. All I need now is 2 grand.

Seriously, I'd like to get one and my wife has been after me about it.

JM

levrluvr:

My back is a mess, too. Years of pain, including surgery. If you're morbidly interested, I'll go into details (you can compare!) via PM, but generally don't like to whine in public.

After using many mattresses, I now have a Select Comfort/Sleep Number. It works for me. It works for my wife, who has one hip going bad. We have the King, with dual controls.

It's just about impossible to describe in words why it doesn't hurt me, why I don't hurt bad when I get up in the morning. (Assuming I keep up on my back exercises.)

Best thing to do is to go to one of their stores when you can be there for at least one full hour. Lay on the thing. Lay there as long as they'll let you. Play with the settings.

Oh, I almost forgot to mention. I bought a single Select Comfort for my 88-year-old mother who has severe osteoporosis, curvature of the spine, bone spurs on her vertebra and arthritic changes in her vertebra. You want to know about back pain? The Select Comfort is the only bed she can sleep on without misery.

Momma loves it. Little Momma loves it. And I wouldn't be without the thing.

Your spine may vary.

- Tom

i have one of these:
http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garde...oam-Mattress-Topper/1657609/product.html

on top of one of these:
http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Sensus-Memory-Foam-3-inch-Mattress-Topper/3657735/product.html

cheaper than when i bought mine.....i put them on top of my regular firm mattress and its been the best $300 and change i have ever spent......saving our pennys and will get the full blown $2000 mattress someday but for $300 and change this buys us some time.....

Looking at a tempurpedic myself, Momma and I both want one. right know I use a invert bench for my back problems, I spend about 30 minutes a day on it, momma got it for me for my Birthday, and all I can say is it kicks ass, back feels a whole lot better after hanging upside down for a bit.

I got a water bed mattress that looks like a regular pillow top. It is great for my back, but I still sleep with a pillow under my knees. I laid down on a tempurpedic mattress at a furniture store and it was too hot for me. I usually sleep on top of the covers or just under a sheet in the summer. We got my daughter a memory foam mattress topper when she was pregnant and she said it helped a whole lot with her back. There is no one size fits all when it comes to beds.

you want frustrating with sleeping temps......my wife is always cold, she aint happy unless its 75 or above.....i quit wearing a coat and stick to t-shirts about the time it hits 20.....so we sleep with a down comforter and two other heavy bedspreads in the winter to keep her warm and with the window open and fan blowing on my face to keep me cool

The wife keeps the heater in the water bed on all the time. That is why I sleep on top of the covers in the summer. After Katrina and the power was out, We pulled the pillowtop and covers off and lay on the mattress to stay cool. She didn't say a word about being too cold then.

We had a tempurpedic mattress for some time and just had the factory come and pick it up. They didn't argue and gave us a full refund. My wife was getting severe headaches and I had allergies acting up (both went away when we were not sleeping on the mattress). The foam in them is primarily made from petroleum and it off-gases terribly (you can even smell it). It was very comfortable as a mattress, but we couldn't tolerate sleeping on a toxic waste site. We now have Air Loom and love it.

We have a tempurpedic as well and it is great. That said, all I could think of when sliding the old credit card was the few nice guns or ??? I could have bought for the same bucks. I still do not understand why mattresses are so darn expensive, technology??? Who would have thought that a mattress would cost twice what a nice PC could be had for...

I was in a mattress store that sold tempurpedics. I was talking to some people and they were looking to replace their tempurpedic. They had it for a couple years and it was junk.According to them. They were looking at regular matresses.

No first hand experience.But that is what I was told first hand.

Bill/WI