I feel like I’m at my wits end. I’ve bought 5 mattresses in the last year and on each one I’m waking up sweating in the middle of the night. I’ve tried memory foam, gel foam, one with recycled plastic bottles and most recently a Wool, Alpaca and Bamboo mattress but all hold too much heat. I’ve tried cotton and polyester toppers with no luck.
I have a 15 year old mattress I’m trying to replace which is excellent for sleeping cool but the springs are going and I don’t know what materials are contained within. Curious to open it up but don’t want to damage it before I have found a replacement.
What am I doing wrong? I’ve seen latex mentioned a lot on here. Is it really cooler than those other materials I’ve tried? At this stage I’d pay anything for something which stops me overheating.
[quote=“Mattrebuild post=90780”]Have you ever tried an active cooling system like these?
I appreciate your posting that, because I was not aware that those systems existed. For years, I’ve been sleeping hot on whatever mattress (current is latex), and therefore adjusting the thermostat, or opening windows, to the point that my wife, who sleeps cool, is uncomfortably cold. But it’s the only way I can get to sleep, and stay asleep without waking up a few hours later in a sweat. She can add blankets, but I can’t have fewer than 0 blankets.
Just yesterday, my chili sleep arrived. I can’t speak to longevity, but the darned thing works! With the bedroom at 78 instead of 72, and 65 degree water circulating under just my half of the fitted sheet, I slept cool.
One caveat: you have to run a cleaning cycle monthly, and they want to sell you a cleaning solution at $6/packet (one use). But people say a capful of hydrogen peroxide will do the trick.