Can your mattress kill you?

[MiataMike]

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Can-Y...ou-76887.shtml

[HudsonHawk]

How ironic that thegoogle ads on that page when I opened it were for temperpedic.

[trickyrix]

Nice... :)

Tempurpedic: The most highly recommended killing device in the world... BUWAHAHAHAHA!!!

[MadMonkey]

Can your Miata cause cancer?!

[Radio-Active]

After 3 years, I found that my memory foam mattress was Kaput. I swapped it out for a hard side waterbed that I purchased from Merv. No more back pain and my bed is always warm in the winter and cool in the summer.

It should be noted that my memory foam mattress was not a Tempur Pedic and did not feel like one in the begining. I never expected that much out of it, but bought it stricly for the adjustable base, which is sitting in my spare bedroom collecting dust.

[goofygrin]

you can pry my foam mattress from cold dead hands. I built a "cheaperpedic" a few years ago and every time I'm on vacation coming home to my nice firm foam bed is so rewarding.

[Maverick]

My mattress is one of the cheaper mid-range ones with an unpronounceable name from IKEA. No foam. After sleeping on a futon for 5 years, it feels like heaven. One of these days I'll get a pillowtop for it and it'll be even better.

[sxk122]

i have a pillowtop 'traditional' mattress from sleep experts that we bought this past summer. First mattress i've bought for myself to my tastes (FIRM). I love it. I tried some of the memory foam mattresses but for the price they didn't seem any better to me. Plus, they are heat sensitive, and i always feel hot to begin with. From what i hear, thats a recipe for making one miserable.

[black roadster]

I prefer to get my memory foam from China.

[HudsonHawk]

Wife hate memory foam. We tried it and she was not coforatable because of the heat issue. We have a Sleep number bed now and we both love it. Each side is a seperate air bladder and can be adjusted to individual tastes.

[MiataMike]

[/quote] black roadster "I prefer to get my memory foam from China." [/quote]

I didn't know they made beds with lead...

[Radio-Active]

I had one of those Select Discomfort/Sleep number mattresses. That was the only bed that after three years, I went to the bedding store and bought one and brought it home the very same day. My back hurt worse on that mattress than any other I ever had and I could not keep from rolling into the middle durring the night.

[trickyrix]

I got a freebie mattress that ended up being too firm, so I topped it with a Sam's Club memory foam pad - made in China, complete with Engrish instructions. Per these instructions, I had to let it unfurl and "outgas" for a couple of days and, yes, it did stink like a chemical plant. But I gotta say that after a few months, it's the most comfortable bed I've ever had. Twenty years from now I may come down with Memory Foam AIDS or something, but as long as I'm comfy I really don't care...

[jrj512]

I laid on a memory foam bed in the store, but I keep slowly sinking. I can just imagine me trying to go to sleep and I keep thinking...

I'm sinking.
I'm still sinking.
Yep, still sinking.
Crap, I have to itch, so that will start the sinking all over again.
Ignore the itch.
Still sinking.
Ignore the itch.
Still sink... crap, that damn itch. I'll scratch.
Starting sinking over, again.
Still sinking.
Too awake now., Guess I'll go watch TV. Kill me.

[jrj512]

BTW, I have slept on a sleep number and really liked it. I will probably get one, next.

[Kasia90]

you can pry my foam mattress from cold dead hands.

I second this notion.

[Radio-Active]

BTW, I have slept on a sleep number and really liked it. I will probably get one, next.

You want to try one out before you buy. I still have my old full sized select discomfort in storage. It's the classic model with wired remotes.

BTW, the only difference between the full and the queen is the size of the outer cover and the amount of foam they stuff on the sides and middle. I know this because my parrent used to have the queen size.

[altiain]

We've had a queen-sized Tempurpedic bed for the last 3 1/2 years. My wife loves it, I'm kind of ambivalent about it. My biggest gripe is the heat trapping bit - it is rather warm to sleep on in the summer.

As for asthma/allergies - my wife has moderate asthma and severe allergies. Neither has been affected one way or another by the change from a traditional mattress to a Tempurpedic one. Nor did we notice any kind of strange chemical smells emanating from the mattress when we first got it.

Would I recommend it? Personally, no. I sleep as well or better upstairs on the twelve year old $500 conventional mattress on the guest room as I do on our bed. Plus, the real Tempurpedic mattresses are expensive - I think we paid over $3k for ours originally? But my wife swears by it.

[jrj512]

I sleep as well or better upstairs on the twelve year old $500 conventional mattress on the guest room as I do on our bed.

Sent up there a lot, huh?

[POS Racing]

Sent up there a lot, huh?

With a kid on the way I'm thinking she isn't sending him upstairs often enough......