First of all, I have read the information on how to buy a mattress on this forum and I have narrowed my purchase to a latex mattress from one of the companies that are members of this website.
I have fibromyalgia as well as a bad back & neck–having had several back/neck surgeries. I know that everyone is different, but considering the fibromyalgia, what firmness have others found provides their best comfort?
Thanks for any input, and I hope any Americans on this forum have a great holiday!
Nancy
It is great to hear that you are well on your way in the process of finding the sleep system that best suits you.
I’m sorry to hear about your condition. In such a situation, where you are very sensitive to pressure with your fibromyalgia, you may end up preferring slightly softer upper layers on your site of your latex component system, but you’d still desire firmer base layers.
There is no specific configuration or type of mattress that is “good for fibromyalgia” in general because each person is unique, and a mattress that works well for one person with a specific condition such as fibromyalgia may be completely unsuitable for someone else with the same conditions to sleep on. In very general terms … softer and more pressure relieving materials that provide a more “relaxed” sleeping surface will tend to work better than firmer materials because for most people with fibromyalgia a softer more pressure relieving sleeping surface is a more important priority, but I know that this does vary with individuals, as well as varying day to day. Muscle spasms can have multiple causes, many of which can have nothing to do with the mattress, so there would be no recommendation I could make for a type of component that might be appropriate for a muscle spasm unless that spasm was directly related to a deficiency in your current sleeping surface.
A forum search on fibromyalgia (you can just click the link) will bring up more comments and feedback from others that are in similar circumstances that may be helpful (but it will also confirm that there isn’t a single “best” combination of materials that will work for everyone with fibromyalgia).
Nothing can replace your own personal testing, as you do have some very specific health considerations. You’d obviously want to consider something that allows for enough surface comfort while sleeping upon your side and back, and also assists with pressure point relief, while still overall being resilient enough and provide enough support while sleeping. Overall, the two basic functions of a mattress are to support and to provide comfort (you can read more about that here if you like), with alignment being the first priority and then comfort coming second.
I noticed that you created two fibromyalgia threads on the forum, both with the same question so and I deleted the duplication.