TEMPUR-Dream™ Crib Mattress

This is my story! Side-sleeper with an expensive memory foam mattress (Tempurdic) is killing my back.

I'd probably use mattress firm to gauge which mattress you want and shop around outside. I was torn between temperpudic and purple but went purple but I looked online to get the best price

So, we sat and tried to compose a list of year/make/model/ what went wrong. Not so easy. My spouse is correct it was 6 beds in 14 years to be exact. Memory foam failure is the #1 reason for having to get rid of each bed. Approximately $16k spent. Sealy, Stearns Foster Avocado, Saatva, Tempur Pedic and 1 more (can't recall brand). Within the 1st 18 months there's always the start of the breakdown, like you feel that its not the same, then come the dips that become valleys and turning is no longer easy. All while complaining "another one bites the dust /is this really happening again/ wtf, all that money, its got to last longer than this." We're done. We should have been done years ago. Latex.

I’ll echo experience with Saatva and Tempur-pedic. I bought the former during Covid and it has done me quite well. In my case, the firmest possible option. That said, when I moved a year and a half ago, I kept that mattress and it’s frame in my master bedroom. But the new house also has a loft space which, taking a queue from the previous owner, I moved a bed up there as well. In this case, I bought a Tempur-pedic. Reason being that they have a new model that also has a lumbar support that is basically just a bar that can push up the middle section of the bed as well as the traditional head in foot. Having tried that in their store, I was pretty sure that that frame was a super superior option for my own quirky body. Of course, it could still use a Saatva mattress, but I went ahead and got the combination. I have no regrets and find myself sleeping on that bed in the loft far more often. That extra support correct for my biggest problem in that other adjustable bed, which was my first ever. And that’s the feeling that my lower back was sinking into the bed when I was not in a level position. Now, I can adjust the lumbar. I’ve never found a particular setting that works… But what really works is being able to adjust it on the fly as pain creeps in. Just being able to modulate makes an enormous difference. Also, as a side sleeper, I find that having the bed level, but that lumbar support pushed up to some degree, or another really helps to sort of mitigate the flexibility of my spine. Nevertheless, these are all very individual things. On the plus side of Tempur-pedic and purple and sleep number… These are all available to try in stores. I highly recommend going to your local mall – which is where I was able to find a store that, I believe, sold all three. And just politely ask him if you can lie down there for a few hours. Bring your phone or a book or whatever and be prepared to feel like a museum peace as children walk by wondering what is wrong with you that you’re lying down in the store… But you can learn a lot more by lying down on each side for a half hour and on your back for another half hour then what any sales person can tell you or any Review online can tell you. I can’t tell you how close I was to buying a sleep number. In fact, if I could’ve put a sleep number mattress on the Tempur-pedic frame, I think I would’ve had the ultimate option for mitigating my own never-ending pain. Sadly, that wasn’t compatible… So I flipped the coin in what I believe is the correct direction. But only your spine can know for sure. And that’s so hard to explain outside of a forum like this. Just do your best to see what works for you and then hope that that choice bears fruit… I’m sure we all have some pretty rough stories about making a very careful, thoughtful, and heavily research choice that we were even able to test ourselves… Only to find that within a month or two or 10 we discover that it was a great effort… But still not as much as we hoped would help us cope through the night. Good luck with whatever you choose.

We had a Tempur-Pedic 20 or so years that was fantastic till about 18 years, then became too soft. We bought another one last year and plan on another 20 great years with it. It's very comfortable and we don't feel each other moving at all. We have a split cal-king. Hope you find what you need.

The tempur pedic actually gave me real pain relief. I know there are other good brands out there, but man it’s hard to recommend anything else when the science bed did the damn thing it said it would.

I’ve been using the foam Novilla mattresses off Amazon for 6 years now. They’re about $350 and I sleep great on them, we have them for every room now. I’ve slept on a tempur pedic, it’s better, but I don’t think it’s $6-10,000 better.