Yeah I think this is the way I'm leaning (no pun!). A Memory Foam mattress topper is going to be my first step, try and adapt myself accordingly. Who knows, I may be a convert to the foam before long!
lower back pain = linked to bed?
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Yeah I think this is the way I'm leaning (no pun!). A Memory Foam mattress topper is going to be my first step, try and adapt myself accordingly. Who knows, I may be a convert to the foam before long!
Must read, written at the layman's level, book for anyone who suffers with lower back pain (which 85% of the population will suffer at one time in their life).
http://www.functionfirst.com/book-pain-free-program.html
For approximately thirty years, I have slept on a two hundred year-old bed that is a nonstandard size, so I had a local company custom make the mattress. I specified, "Make me the hardest mattress you have ever made." They did, and I believe it is impossible to wear this mattress out. Also, I sleep like a baby with zero back pain. I'm convinced hard is best. By the way, I sleep flat on my back with my arms crossed like a vampire.
I remember reading an account of a man who spent years in a Siberian work camp. Mostly, he wrote of all the expected horrors, but he did mention the upside of becoming accustomed to sleeping on a flat board. He maintained that it fixed his bad previous posture and back problems.
Oh, I worked as a traveling rep for years, and I did sleep fairly well at better hotels, but not as well as at home on my old "board" mattress.
I completely concur. Before I met my SO, I slept on a hard bed just as you described and I loved it. After we met, I was coerced into getting a new, "modern" multi-layer ten foot thick mattress that is "all nice and cushy" by "normal peoples" standards, where I cannot sit on the bed and have my feet come anywhere near the floor while I put my socks on and shoes on. I hate it. It was not the most expensive bed in the store, but for the $7500 I spent, I could have had a lot more fun buying a lawn tractor. The worst part is, I never had back pain before, but I do when I sleep on that bed. If I sleep in the guest room where my previous bed now resides, I wake up feeling great and without any stiffness regardless of my sleeping position, which several people have told me throughout my life, does not change at all during the night. Some nights I sleep on my back, others on my left or right side or abdomen, but once asleep, I lie there, still as a corpse until the alarm rings in the morning, so changing positions does not contribute to feeling good or not in the morning. It's the degree of firmness of the bed.
For me, a bed about as hard (or soft) as a deep pile carpet is just right. I don't know what people see in a "nice soft" mattress.
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I like the same bed and same room arrangement. I guess we have to make adjustments. . . .
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