Hi all,
I was referred here from Reddit. I unfortunately had a bad reaction to steroids causing severe insomnia and dysautonomia related to a car accident procedure going wrong.
I need help please to find ASAP a cotton topper 3 inch I think, cotton encasement with no vocs or plastics if such a thing exists. Im 5 9 22X. Also open to alternative cotton mattresses to replace this once insomnia breaks hopefully. I will be stuck in this bed 24/7 for a few weeks until i get out of the adrenaline then crash.
Bought a Gold Bond 1000 as all I could find coming tomorrow local stock. I know it’s a brick but need to make it decent so I can break insomnia. Im desperate for a bed. Before my other bed broke end of Sept i got 5.5 hours of sleep but now down to less than hour. So I wasted 2 months of my life basically hoping Nectar would off gas plus waiting for Nwurologist and allergist appointment about latex. Allergist said could take more months to off gas.
I have allergies suddenly to everything in a foam mattress or vinyl blow up bed. It seems so only Cotton would be safe. Pure cotton and springs is a nightmare to find. I called multiple places and was going to buy a cotton futon until I did my research I’m too heavy as a side sleeper. Called Futon land for help. Also have brachial plexus injury so sleeping on my side arms go numb at times and neck burns so being in bed is torture as I’m homebound almost 90 days from insomnia that last 1.5 months has been bed related. I was like how do I buy a bed if everything smells so strong?
The steroids made me have such weakness I couldn’t get my head up one day. I was about to replace my old mattress labor day then due to a complication from procedure and a cleaning product throat went into spasm. On steroids nervous system went haywire and hypervigilance that turned into incredibly strong smell. Also new chemical sensitive I didn’t have before. Suddenly the minor dip in my bed became super noticeable. I hoped to ride it out and go back to spare bedrooms old cotton mixed spring bed from 15 years ago same as mine. I did CBTI where my worn bed I tolerated dheinf day and went back to the other confy twin at night. Then had a bad er trip and was stuck in the spare bedroom bed all day at 211lbs. Within 2 days suddenly it hammocked. We tried using yoga mat, blankets etc. Then went back to uncomfortable mattress but dropping from 4 hours sleep to 1 nervous system got worse and ordered a nectar overnight. Problem was realized old beds base was failing. Got a new one but couldn’t sleep for 2 days. Got the nectar but it made my eyes tear up, nose throat irritation. Went okay it off gasses. Waited weeks as I knew it takes time. Longest I could get is 1. 5 hrs before too much suffering. Realized being in main spring bed it rapidly was declining. The bed I used to sleep in pre steroids I’d get like 4 ish hours then turn over 2 then 2 due to some injuries but this time bed was intolerable.
After a a week I got a blow up bed then suddenly skin started burning. Tried getting an encasement for the Nectar same reaction skin burning. So now I’m intolerant to foam, vinyl, plastic. There goes 95% mattress. Found Nature Pedic but couldn’t swallow the price of 4k. Contacted allergist they don’t know if I’m allergic to latex but warned me not to. Wool would be too strong smell. I can smell peanut butter from 6 ft away with the adrenaline sleeping only 2 ish hours a day. A
Then last week I sat at edge of bed for 3 days injured disc and mattress started to give out. I frantically called and no one carries the vegan eos cotton as desperately willing to pay.
Started calling manufacture in NJ and found only a floor model twin but a 9 inch medium spring at Oranage custom mattress. I then called a local place that had a Gold Bond 1000 that has some nylon in the stitching I pray works but it’s a rock. I’m a side sleeper with a disc issue that has been severely exasperated by the hammocking mattress so I’m desperate. I said yes paid 1250 with 75 delivery.
How would you guys handle tis nightmare? Dling to air out the bed 3 days and hope i can tolerate it.
I do have existing dust, weeds, pollen plus roach allery.
Any suggestions for hammocking full mattress also would be greatly appreciated. Im so horribly depressed and tired.