Dear Phoenix,
I’m new to the forum and this website has great information and wished that I had found your website sooner. After reading alot of the messages and replies and your information, I realized that I’m not alone and quickly told my husband. I’m at the lowest point right now since I haven’t had a good night sleep for a year now, not like I used to.
A year ago, my mattress of 8 yrs or so (Sealy posturepedic plush- I believe I have bought from Costco) started to sag a little and felt midback and lower back pain, I decided to finally change it. So I thought I would buy a mattress from one of the local highschool that was doing a fundraiser at that time and would be helping a coworker’s son. I bought mattress#1-$1000 restonic pillow top mattress (thought I would upgrade myself to a pillowtop). That was a mistake, found out it was too soft and felt back pain within the first night. Tried to get used to it but made my back felt worst. So called to exhange but the exhange didn’t happen until 2 months after I bought it, so in the meantime, slept all over the place( my husband’s bed, sofa,air mattress)So then I thought I will exchange it to a firm bed, it was too firm and my pressure points hurt( since I’m a side sleeper) and now I’m stuck with the firm bed. Just to clarify, my husband and I sleep in separate beds because he snores and his bed is too firm for me.
So I bought mattess# 2 from Costco($700-sealy posture pedic plush with gel memory foam) which was a little better with the firmness, at least my pressure points hurted less but it was TOO HOT. We decided to keep that one for my daughter and gave Two more months passed by and me sleeping all over the place and loosing so much sleep that it affected my immune system and I got sick with a bad sinus infection, lost weight and got tested with my primary doctor. Everything was negative( hormones, neck and back xray was negative).
Then I bought mattress #3 $2000-sleep number bed and tried that for a month and that didn’t work for me. I couldn’t find the right number, either too firm and my pressure points hurt or too soft and my spine and lower back hurt. So I returned it.
Then decided to buy another mattress from mattress discounters here in San Diego ($1000 mattress#4-Sealy posturepedic plush with gel memory foam) That mattress didn’t turn out again because it was too hot( even with cool bedsheets that was sold to me) still hurt my pressure points. I had to keep it and break it in for 3 months before I can exhange. So within those 3 months, I tried to break it in by jumping on it every night, bought 5 different kinds of mattress toppers(either still too firm or too soft). Then after 3 months exchange it to mattress #5 $1700 Sterns and Foster luxury firm. Decided on S&F because it didn’t have the gel memory foam that made me hot. Still, that was too firm and hurt my pressure points still, so I started to sleep on an incline, but this position hurt my lower back. Also bought an$800 adjustable bed from Sleep Train and put my new bed on top of that and that wasn’t good for my back either, so I returned it.
Had also done back massages,(which didn’t have to do before all these things happened),acupunture-didn’t help, physical theraphy-which helped my muscle tension due to sleeping in weird positions and on different beds,
Now it has been a year already, stuck with 3 mattress, spent close to $4000, done close to everything possible except waterbed, feeling sick again, desperate, depressed. Thinking of going to primary doctor to get prescription for pain meds, anti-depressants meds and meds to promote sleep, all because I just want to get a good night sleep again.
I was wondering if there’s such a place, where they can customize a bed( not for size and shape) for me. What I mean is, go to a store, recommend the quality materials that goes in the bed and built the bed for me. At this point, I’m willing to pay at least $5000 for a customize bed if that bed will give me that good sleep again. I also wished that I can sleep on the bed for one night before i purchase it because I never know how it feels until I sleep on it for the night. Also just to let you know Mr. Phoenix that before I purchase my Sealy Posturepedic and Sterns and Foster at mattress discounters that I would try those beds at least one hour or so and go back to the store 5-6 times.
Please help me figure out what stores or website I could go to here in SanDiego to find me a mattress.