I bought a Savvy Rest latex bed back in the spring. I’ve had several problems going on with my body, and I am looking for some advice on how to get everything squared away.
Background:
I have a mild scoliosis of the back, which I treat with stretches and lying on a curved board every day.
I also have frequent pain in my R shoulder, which I thought was from the scoliosis.
I bought the new bed in March, after much research here and elsewhere. Initially the bed was comfortable, but I was having shoulder and back pain that was happening in the mid-late AM. Shortly after I bought the bed, I got the flu, and was bedridden for nearly 2 weeks, which really messed up my lower back from all the coughing. So I thought that the back pain was from that, not the bed.
In May I went to the doctor for some other issues, and he then diagnosed me with compensatory scoliosis (one leg was 1/4" shorter than the other), which we are treating with a shoe shim. Seemed to help my balance, but didn’t do much for the back and shoulder pain, so he prescribed a lot of core muscle exercises, which helped, but I was still in pain. I suffered through the summer with this; the doc poo-poohed my mentions of continued pains, saying that my body was adjusting and I needed to be patient.
Come September, I was still having hip and shoulder pain, as well as worsening neck pain. I was using a Savvy Rest shredded foam pillow, which was initially comfortable, but as the night wore on, my head would sink into it and the support was much less, which seemed to cause neck pain. I just recently tried a generic stuffed foam pillow that is a lot thicker and I could tell it was helping after only one night- the neck pain is about 90% reduced, and my R shoulder pain was also reduced maybe 75%. So far, so good.
But I am still having hip and pain in the L shoulder, which becomes noticeable enough about 3-4am to wake me, and it only gets worse from there.
I suspect that the bed isn’t working out as well as I had initially thought, so I was thinking of seeing if the dealer had any ideas as to how to change the layers to make it work better. The biggest issues are that a) the dealer is over an hour away, and b) the hip and shoulder pain isn’t evident for a long period of time, so just lying on a different layer type in the store may not be that helpful.
I have a Savvy Rest bed with firm Dunlop on the bottom layer, medium Dunlop middle layer, and medium Tantalay on the top. No topper, etc. I primarily sleep on my sides, but revert to a back sleeper in the late AM (4-5am) when I can’t sleep on the sides anymore.
I am looking for some advice as to what direction I might start adjusting the bed before I go back to the dealer to see what he thinks; a soft top layer? Adjust the middle layer?
The bed is out of the 90-day warranty period. So I am not sure, short of contacting Savvy Rest, how they would handle layer exchanges, if needed. The store had said that if I needed an exchange during the 90-day period, that it would be $100 to exchange layers, which was kind of a deterrent to switching willy-nilly, but perhaps I should have at that time, but I was still recovering from the flu and what with the other issues going on, things were rather confused.