Mattress advice?

[Cheryl M]

Not sure I should resurrect someone else's thread so here goes... (Anyone else who has mattress isssues feel free to join inwith this one)

I bught a weird mattres called the Dormeo S plus Evolution (it was a Which best buy). It's deisgned to be adatable to different sleepers. It is much better than my old mattress whic was 15 years old lol. It has a ahard and a soft side - I'm using the soft one and it was much comfier straight away.

Problem is it can also be rotated to besofter under either the hips or the shoulders. You may have guessed it... if it's softer under the hips it's harder under the shulders and viece versa. Hard under the shoulder was unbearable so i've switched it rouund to be hard under the hips.

So It is OK apart from that, but I've got hypermobility and my joints are painful nowdays and inoticed that when I get out of bed, my left hip (the bad one) sometimes frrls unstable (like it's goin to collapse under me, although it hasn't).

I have a 200 night try period, so my options are:
1. Return mattress (and try to find an other good value, fairly good one that has a try period and is soft on the hips!...)
2. Buy a soft, good value momory foam mattress topper, try it out of top of the mattress and see if that fixes problem. (But if it doesnt I'll have to return that as well.)

It was quite difficult for me adn my care assistant to get rid of the old mattress and I'm not very keen abut staritng the wole mattress-buying thing all over again. Thoghts?

 

[Treeman]

Return and try another one with a return facility if it doesn’t meet your needs.

 

[Wishful]

I agree: if you're not happy with it, return it. Its special feature might be great for some people else, but apparently not for you. Trying to fix it with a topper might work, or it might be like building an expensive house on a faulty foundation.

I've been happy with my "slab of urethane foam" mattress. It was really cheap compared to typical mattresses, and has held up well. I think it's over 30 years old.

 

[Rufous McKinney]

I love my mattress made entirely in Chicago. However, rubber is not produced in the United States. And I doubt bamboo is either.

it was a mattress in a box, medium not firm. I actually shipped it 1800 miles. and those professional movers did not wrap it and ship it correctly, so I expected it to be messed up but it wasn't. (in theory, you get a mattress sized plastic bag (that is also likely imported) AND then, evacuate all the air with your vacuum cleaner, recompress the mattress and then roll it back up, and then.....etc etc.

 

[Rufous McKinney]

slab of urethane foam

eventually all that starts to disintegrate.

Rubber will disintegrate, someday also. But probably buys more time.

 

[Rufous McKinney]

Buy a soft, good value momory foam mattress topper

FYI those get hot, when sleeping on it. if that is an issue.

 

[BrightCandle]

If your not happy with I would suggest returning it.

I went through a mattress replacement recently and went for 100% latex of the firm variety and its pretty good, has been helping my back pain quite a bit and its a lot cooler to lay on so far than the foam from before.

 

[Cheryl M]

Oh dear, solid vote for reutnring it. I was thinkng that the mattress topper might still be usable if I decide to return the mattress, so was worth giving it a go to make my mind up for defiinite... (If its still slightly dodgy with the topper I will def send it back)

I don't mind memoryfoam being hot lol, I live somwhere cool -and I feel the cold too much anyway.

 

[Wishful]

eventually all that starts to disintegrate.

Yes, which is why I'm impressed that my foam is still holding up. It's lasted far longer than I'd expected.

A quick search revealed that mattresses tend to last 5-10 years, depending on various factors. So, my cheap urethane foam one is well above average. Just lucky?

 

[Rufous McKinney]

quick search revealed that mattresses tend to last 5-10 years, depending on various factors. So, my cheap urethane foam one is well above average. Just lucky?

I notified the owner of an RV we stayed in. "Your piece of foam is entirely disintegrating" I told her. Because it was. I bet it's still there, rather than sequestered in a known landfill. At least you'd know where it was disintegrating, there at the landfill.

I'd wash my hair, and see the green foam accumulating in the shower stall. Also the red flannel sheets: all this flannel is pilling and coming off. Its all horrifying.

 

[Rufous McKinney]

I don't mind memoryfoam being hot lol,

I bought the wrong version of a topper once, sorry Martha Stewart. It was too thin. Didn't hardly make any difference. So then there I was stuck with foam I did not want.

 

[Wishful]

All resilient foams are not equal. There's more than just urethane and latex, and different formulations and combinations. Some do disintegrate quickly, while others last a very long time. The foam filler in my hiking boot cuffs, which I bought around the same time as my mattress, turned to powder in less than ten years.

I'm disappointed in today's "rubber" inner tubes. They do not last anywhere near as long as the ones I grew up with. I expect the latex is blended with much cheaper polymers with cheap additives that leach out. They aren't as elastic either.

Just looked up memory foam. Originally it was polyurethane, but it's also made from other polymers now. There are many different varieties, with different characteristics ... and different volatile chemicals people might be sensitive to. So, buying a "memory foam" product is like buying a "food product": lots of very different ones available. I expect the same is true for "urethane foam", so if you trust one person's review of a product, you need to buy the same product, not just one with the same general label.

Wouldn't it be nice if ChatGPT could reliably answer "which is the best product for me"?

 

[Rufous McKinney]

which is the best product for me

thats probably the next iteration. One meets the new AI, and becomes further acquainted with all kinds of nuance about one's life, health, lifestyle choices etc etc. Then, it can provide a more customized personal answer.

I'm disappointed in today's "rubber" inner tubes.

Actual rubber exists more, down here in Mexico. But yes, they've tried to ruin real rubber, also. Try to find a hot water bottle that would last more than six months.

Nothing lasts any more, when it used to. The book Voluntary Simplicity by Duane Elgin was written in 1981.

A house built in 1931, likely still has a faucet that works. You only need to change the "rubber" gasket.

Now, we replace the kitchen faucets on an annual basis.

 

[Wishful]

Now, we replace the kitchen faucets on an annual basis.

Okay, I'm surprised. I've replaced washers on lots of old faucets, and the o-ring cartridges in some newer-than-the-washer types. I don't know what the new ones use. I do recall that one of the big brands provides free replacement cartridges. I think those lasted quite a few years. Hmmm, how often did people replace their mattresses in the 1940's, or the 1840's?

Ah, the "good old days" (with plenty of bad stuff too). I wonder what the period of greatest general personal happiness was.