I'm in the market for a new mattress...

[ellisonz]

...any thoughts on the traditional spring mattress vs. memory foam? Any thoughts on brands?

Mahalo. My back has been killing me lately.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_foam

I just want a

[trof]

1. Adjustable air bed.

Love mine.
You can pump it up or down.
Whatever firmness you like.
Perfect.

[rurallib]

8. We are looking also - and this seems to be the choice

is there any other company than Sleep-Number?

[trof]

12. I found a look-alike at a discount mattress place in CA.

Google it.
About half the price of Sleep Number and they shipped it UPS in a large box.

[ellisonz]

3. Thanks.

I'm pretty strong so weight shouldn't be an issue. Although, my weight seems to be an issue with traditional spring mattresses! Within a couple years, you can tell where I sleep!

[marzipanni]

4. Regular foam

We have a regular foam mattress, too. It's 5" (heh, I started to put 5') thick, and I bought a natural cotton cover/quilted polyester fiberfill fitted mattress cover, and we have it on a platform with a low wood frame, no box spring. My husband drilled some small holes in the platform because we thought some air circulation would be good.
The mattress does have very slight 'depressions' in it where we sleep but we don't really notice, and it's older than my son who's 17.
I'm never as comfortable on regular beds when visiting or traveling somewhere as I am on our bed, except a new hotel that had new poofy-topped mattresses, and I know that stuff compresses fairly soon.

I 've read that memory foam smells weird, and it's harder to move on one because you sink in a bit more.

Probably any foam product should air out for a week or so, especially if it has been wrapped in plastic. I bought a twin size mattress from Ikea for my son. It was rolled tightly and wrapped in plastic, so I unwrapped and unfurled it, and left it in a room by itself for a week or two. It is on top of a traditional mattress with a bed board on it (sheet of 1/2 " plywood with rounded edges).

I'm going to get some pillows from Ikea because they are down, and synthetic down, so you can moosh them up to be a bit lofty, or not. They have quite a few to choose from, and I don't like the thick pillows I've found at other stores, at all.

[ellisonz]

5. Mahalo for your comments.

I ended up going to Sears and getting a spring/foam hybrid Sears-o-pedic queen with a box spring. Should be a big improvement over the futon mattress with pillows stuffed underneath on metal bars I'm sleeping on now.

Excited to

[fifthoffive]

13. We too have "regular" foam mattress

Latex foam, actually. Mattress is thick, with different densities at different sections to provide better support where needed. We put ours on a conventional box-spring.

Love it. Wouldn't go back to conventional spring mattress.

Got it because I was having back (disk) problems. I still have problems (arthritis) but am much more comfortable now than on our old mattress.

It does isolate movement, so we don't wake each other up every time we change positions.

[quakerboy]

6. I like tempurpedic

Foam VS spring, I will never go back to spring. I'd rather sleep on a super cheap pad on the floor.

I like tempurpedic. I spent a lot of time in the various mattress stores testing different ones out. Tempurpedic feels different to me than even the other similarly priced memory foam mattresses, let alone the cheaper ones.

[snagglepuss]

7. I once read that it's hard to have sex ona memory foam mattress.

But that might have beena rumor started by Sealy.

[NightWatcher]

9. The foam sux. We just got rid of ours this week for an old skool mattress

I hate those stupid foam mattresses.

[Lionel Mandrake]

10. I clicked here by mistake.

I thought you wrote "for a new mistress".

[ellisonz]

11. lol

I'm actually in the market for a new mistress too.

[Digit]

14. I have a sleep number on an adjustable foundation.

The person I purchased the foundation from was also selling a new sleep number bed still in the original packaging.
I already had my own SN mattress but was looking for the adjustable foundation.
Her sister had ordered both pieces believing she was moving to this area and ended up not moving.

It was on Craigslist.

[ellisonz]

15. OMG so comfortable...