I’m not too worried about longevity, cuz whatever happens to this one, i won’t be heartbroken if i have to get a new one, i just want it to hold out til i can afford a wonderful one. But i can tell When i bought it at macy’s it was the 2nd firmest bed in the store, it felt like…well, laying on a floor, so i thought it was good. fail. For the 10 mins i was laying on it at the store it actually DID feel good. But after sleeping on it, my circulation started getting cut off. I kept it because i thought, oh, i’m just getting used to it. bleh. I can tell you that every time 2 people i know come over they say “can i lie on your bed, my back hurts”. lol. It’s listed as an extrafirm, which i can tell you, suits it. i’m sure there are a small minority of people who can handle it, and even like it, it’s just very very firm.
sometimes i have to lift my body parts off the bed (with my hands), or turn my body and let my legs follow me, it’s so painful they fall asleep or something. It’s so bad…not buzzy, but painful and hard to move them… so hopefully that describes the actual bed, and not just my interpretation. I hate soft beds, detest them. The matty i had come off before buying this one was 6 year old wool/cotton futon, it was dense but…comfy. (I really liked it but decided to replace it for some dumb reason) I certainly didn’t sink in, but it was never painful to sleep on, when i came from that matty, that’s why i chose this extrafirm in the first place, everything in the store felt so darn soft and sinky compared to it.
So with that said, I just looked up my overstock order from a few years back to see what topper i got and i got this one…and while it makes the bed sleepable, as in, my circulation doesn’t cut off as quckly (and no, i don’t have any other physical issues that make my circ cut off, it’s only something i experience in this bed), it certainly doesn’t make it unpainful and not even close to pleasant.
I know this topper below that i bought a few years ago is not great, but it made so little difference, what is wrong about it that i should correct when i get my next topper? I did have better luck with it when there was no cover on it, but that just looked so bad. Either way, i don’t want to make the same error of whatever i did wrong with buying a topper.
http://www.overstock.com/Bedding-Bath/Comfort-Dreams-Ultra-Soft-3-inch-Queen-King-size-Memory-Foam-Mattress-Topper/3684135/product.html
(i just doubled the thing over on itself now, gonna sleep on it like this tonight, see how that goes. i tried it a few times but it’s hard to stay on the small width once it’s folded over)