Mattress recommendations - How well do you all sleep? Sleep # Beds???

So I just bought a Nectar. It was a great deal, normal $1k but $200 off and an additional $125 coupon +2 pillows. The bed is a medium firm, maybe like a 7, but I didnt think about that before I bought "the most comfy bed in the world". Problem I have is I am a side sleeper and I get a lot of mid back and mainly hip pain like pressure point pain. So far the bed is soft when I lay down, after I sink into position I feel my hip bottom out into the gel layer and and Im still getting some hip pains in the morning. My mid back is fine now and Im trying to give it some more time before returning it. The bed is very comfy and Id recommend if you dont have the same problems I have. But I think I need a SOFT bed. something that is easier on my hips. So when shopping, make sure and consider firmness levels even if it is a foam bed or gel etc..
 
The best nights of sleeping I had in my life were on a baffled water bed - ALONE. Alone was a key factor.
I would sleep on my back and come morning there was no evidence that I ever changed position throughout the night. Water bed gone and some very nice relationships after and now 25 years of marriage and I have probably had 2 good nights of sleep since. Must add - no drugs and rarely enough alcohol to enhance (or debilitate) the quality of my sleep. :(

The reason for this thread is because I have finally decided that a lifetime of fitful sleeping because of a mattress is no longer acceptable. I'd sleep on my back now but this causes me to snore. Therefore, confined to side sleeping. I would prefer that my hips don't bottom out on a gel layer. o_O We are relative lightweights so what is medium/firm to some of you would seem rock hard to us. This ain't gonna be easy :confused:

Thanks for all the suggestions and shared experience.

Ray
 
Exactly. That's why I like mine, firm one side, soft the other.

Just flip it, though it is one heavy sob.
 
On our second sleep number, #1 was pretty much destroyed by the dog running and jumping onto it. It was around 7 years old, every time we went to sleep number store they tried talking us out of buying a new one and just use warranty to get it rebuilt. I think that showed what kind of company it is. So , to make a long story even longer, got the new mattress, queen size middle of the road model, wake up rested and refreshed, once I found my number (65) no need to change. Wife messes with her number because she has the app on her phone and studies it often. Wouldn't buy another brand of mattress
 
Thanks Wilfred17 Wilfred17 - I was hoping to read more praise for the Sleep #, I guess I'm leaning in that direction but need more encouragement. At the least you are saying that it's not overhyped but actually a good system. :thumbsup:
That's 2 in favor and one neutral :)

Ray
 
I have a cheap, firm, ikea mattress. Works great and it’s cheap. :D Mattresses are mostly marketing hype. Getting a good nights sleep is super important for your health but like any other important healthy habit, you can’t buy a solution. It has to be done the hard way.

One thing I don’t quite get from this thread, you guys keep your mattresses for decades? Why? Seriously...why? :confused:
 
I have had good luck with memory foam beds in the past but the problem back then was that your body heat would slowly build up and I would find myself kicking off the sheets in the early AM but from what I hear they have overcome that problem so that's worth checking into. I recently got talked into a memory foam/coil spring hybrid, foam on the borders and stuffed inside the coils and it Sucked/Worst Ever! so stay away. Hugh depressions formed within a year and I paid good money too so I'm in the market for new mattress also :mad:. Tilting beds and sleep numbers don't interest me and can be gimmicky with the air bladder style pumps being annoying to listen to when they turn on to maintain your sleep number. Honestly the best mattress I ever had was a Sealy Posture-pepedic waterbed mattress. It had had hundreds of two inch water baffles throughout and a firm lumbar support, I could walk on it without waking up my wife if I had to but as you know they are heavy and you need a strong base and you should place it perpendicular to hardwood floor seems. I placed one parallel with the floorboards once and it depressed the flooring causing a slight gap. Good luck
 
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