Tempura or "memory" mattress - got one?

[Globalti]

Mrs RR went out and spent £60 on a memory foam cover to try to sort her bad back. It's awful, sweaty and hot, smells funny and you sink into it and can't turn over. After 3 nights I've woken up this morning with backache. Anybody else got one? Do you like it?

 

[adscrim]

We've got a regular mattress with a integrated layer of memory foam and I love it; but that wasn't always teh case. Although never finding it sweaty, I was suffering from back and shoulder ache for the first few weeks.

IT's a dream now though! I guess you just have to get used to it!

 

[rich p]

It makes you feel a bit battered in the morning

 

[Aperitif]

Make sure it's the right size or else you'll be short tempur-ed

 

[Mr Pig]

I don't think there are any rights of wrongs with mattresses. They used to always say that a harder one was better for your back, my wife thinks so, but I get on better with a softer one. Just get a quality effort or it'll be finished in no time and you'll need another one!

 

[Kirstie]

I don't think sleeping on Tempura would be very comfortable...it would be all crispy and the crumbs would get in the sheets...

 

[Dalestar]

bought a full mattress, the firm option. It's the best mattress i've ever slept on, although it did need a couple of days out of the packet to get in to shape and it did smell funny for about 2 weeks.

 

[Piemaster]

My wife is a long time sufferer of a bad back and wasn't sleeping too well before we bought a water bed. Only problem she has with it now is getting out of it in a morning.

 

[fossyant]

How thick is the topper.

We have one for our son (2" thick) as his mattress isn't great - down to the fact his bed is a 'shortie' - i.e. a few inches short.

We've also bought them for my MIL whose had a stroke and was finding her bed uncomfy - that one is 3" thick and they seem to like it.

My wife splashed out on a 2000 pocket sprung and memory foam topped bed - that is really nice to sleep in, certainly helps with my shoulder.

See how you go with it.

 

[postman]

My ex wife and i bought a water bed we eventually drifted apart.

 

[cheadle hulme]

We got the full Tempur mattress. Because its solid foam, and doesn't have air pockets inside, its unbearably hot and clammy as no air circulates underneath you. I can't stand it, Mrs loves it.

If you tend to get warm easily, then I'd avoid tbh.

 

[CJR1100]

Tempur mattress, the best thing since the wheel. I must say it took three or four nights to get used to it and the pillows, now I miss it when away in hotels, but being a sad sack, I do take my own pillow with me.

 

[col]

We got a one inch thick one for our bed a year ago, best thing we did, very comfortable and not hot as some have found, very happy with it.

 

[craigwend]

I think we got one from these

http://www.memoryfoammattressdirect.co.uk/

It's been bloody great, though when it arrived shrink wrapped i could not believe how small it was.

two two years on better than the very expensive silentnight/sealy? one we had previous

 

[Gary D]

We bought one about 3 months ago. It is a pocket sprung type with a memory-foam top layer sewn on to it. Bl00dy expensive but worth it

Others are right, they do pong for a few days when first unwrapped

First impressions were that it was very firm. However, it is the most comfortable mattress I have ever slept on. It took a while to get used to - especially if you change position as the memory foam then has to re-conform to your new shape. But I haven't been able to sleep flat on my back for a very long time because I would always wake up with terrible back ache. With this mattress I can now

Gary.