My husband and I purchased the sleep number bed a couple months ago. We really tried to like but ended up tossing and turning all night. We ended up returning it for a tempur-pedic and now we can barely sleep. I have back aches every night. We have only had it for about 5 days. Is it too soon to tell if we will like it or not? Do we need to get used to it before we can enjoy it? Both of these mattresses felt like heaven in the store. We bought it from Mattress Firm and we cannot return it, only exchange. The thing is, it was one of the more expensive mattresses there and if we exchange it for a less expensive one we lose the difference.
Does anyone know if we will start to love the tempur-pedic once we get used to it? Thanks!
We have Tempur-pedic and we love it. I have a "bad" back and it has been great but it does take getting used to. One thing that we were told when we bought ours was to not use a mattress pad-they work with your body heat and mattress pads affect this-sounds weird but we don't use one and we truly love our mattress. HTH
Hi!
I know nothing about mattresses but I did a photo shoot in a mattress store this week and learned more than I ever wanted to know about sleeping and the things we sleep on.
One thing that the floor supervisor pointed out as I was shooting different mattresses was that, like a water bed, some folks had an adjustment period when switching from conventional mattresses.
How long does that period last? I don't know but I have 384 pictures of different mattresses that will bore you to sleep!! Hahaha
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Break it in. Walk on it. It will soften up and feel like it did in store. After we
broke ours in, we now love it!
My mom and dad HATEHATEHATE theirs. They have had it for 2 years. My dad now sleeps apart from my mom. They refuse to get another one because it was sooo expensive.
I feel your pain!!! My husband and I bought a tempurpedic bed two years and it is now in our guest bedroom...we both hate it! Wednesday we spoke to someone from Mattress Firm and he told us to jump on the bed to break it in...he said sometimes it takes a while to break it in. We're going to give it another try after jumping on the bed to see if it gets any better. If it doesn't than he suggested selling it on ebay or craigslist b/c someone will buy it and then starting over. We've been looking at the sleep number bed...I'm not sold on it but my husband really likes the idea of it.
We used their pillow topper.
I would highly suggest taking it back. Anything that causes pain is not good for your back even if there seems to be a "getting used to of it period". Beds that are too soft are not the answer. You muscles are strained when they have to work to try and keep the body held in a position while you sleep. Your body never gets the rest it needs. Try and good firm/soft mattress with a correct cervical pillow for your head and some support between you legs if you are a side sleeper.
C.
I have a tempur-pedic and we like it. But it did take some getting used to and breaking in.
I have found my back pain is from me sleeping on my stomach and have made conscious efforts to only side sleep. That has helped. I was also using to many pillows to prop up my head, at least two and then would wake up on my stomach. I was getting bent in half-...backwards. I now only use one fluffy pillow and try to side sleep and have seen a drastic reduction in my back pain. My sinuses are a little more clogged from only one pillow but my back is truly happy. When I wake up with a back ache, I find that I have woken up on my stomach.
So before you take the mattress back, look at all the reasons that there are for your back pain. If may not be the mattress.
Good luck,
L.
when we bought our new mattress - the mattress store guy told us we needed to give it at least 30-60 days before making a decision to return - b/c it takes that long to get used to it. The first couple of weeks - my back hurt every night - which is why we got the new mattress in the first place - now it is fine - 10 months later.
You really hate it. This reply comes about 5 year late so I trust you have figured out what you needed to do, but this is for the next person googling the same thing. You should not have to get used to a mattress, the right mattress will feel like heaven the very first night. But mattress companies give you 90 days hoping that you'll invest weeks into a bed and end up keeping it because it's "good enough". Tempur pedics range from ultra cushiony and soft to pretty darn firm. You cannot tell by jabbing it with your fingers because they all have the tempur material on top. You need to spend a night on one, under the covers because the way you sleep in life is probably not lying flat on your back all night long. But if you toss and turn and can't get comfortable after a night---send it back and try another one. Think about it----if you stick something in your mouth you hate the taste of, do you have it for dinner every night for a month just to make SURE you hate it, and won't get used it it? You're body KNOWS what it likes. I had a tempur-pedic for 8 years that I absolutely was in love with, but it started to degrade and split. Probably because I bought it used and it didn't ever have a cover on it. At any rate about 3 months ago I could no longer deny the fact that it had died and gone to visco elsatic heaven without me. Problem was, I didn't know which one it was. I measured the width (they come in different widths) contacted tempur-pedic, told them what year I bought it and they told me they didn't make the same mattresses they did 8 years ago but it was probably closest to a Countour Signature, so I went to sit and sleep and tried that. I loved it! Took it home, spent the night on it and HATED IT. I knew the first hour under the covers in the dark that this was not my mattress. Then I tried the Rhapsody---OMG that was worse. That's like sleeping on a cushy ironing board. If you return a mattress to sit and sleep you have to pay a $250 restocking fee to get another, but what's $250 against 20 years of sleep? I started treating sit and sleep like a library---borrowing mattresses. Finally found the same mattress I had for 8 years on Craig's List for $300 and bought it. Perfection. I don't think tempur-pedics get softer over time. They say they do, they say it can take a month for the cells to open up but on the two I had which I didn't like, I felt no difference after a month. I am a firm believe that your body knows what it wants and don't try and reason with it. But I also believe there is a perfect tempur-pedic for everyBODY, you just have to be diligent and keep trying them and when you find it, OMG it is worth all the effort. As far as losing the difference if you exchange it----make them give you tempur-pedic pillows, sheets, a foundation and anything else they have to make up the difference. I ended up just selling the Rhapsody on Craig's list at a deep discount (one month after I bought it) but I got karma points and I found the perfect mattress for $300 and that's how things roll sometimes. My advice---Do not sacrifice your sleep or comfort for anything or anyone. I mean it is 1/3rd of you life.
We have a tempur-pedic and love it. We did walk all over it to "break" it in. But we noticed a difference in our sleep almost immediately. We haven't noticed it being too hot during the summer. We also have a mattress protector/cover on it and haven't had any issues. We bought the "Grand" bed, but we bought it at Sleep Experts. I don't think Mattress Firm offers that kind. When we looked, they did not. Sleep Experts did tell us to sleep on it for at least 30 days before deciding whether or not to exchange it.
I was told like everyone els to give it 30 days to get used to a Tempur-pedic. It has been three weeks. I have been going to the chiropractor 3 times a week. Taking Advil through out the day, just to survive the pain I feel. This bed feels great in the store but you really don't know until you sleep on it. A total waste of money. Don't buy this bed!!!
