<p>GBESQ–thank you for the information on the medication!! He was prescribed some meds, but I am not sure what it is. I will check and see. Whatever it is, it hasn’t helped. I am trying to get him to agree to have a sleep study and see a movement specialist (neurologist). I will pass on your information!!</p>
<p>My boyfriend and I got a generic Tempur-Pedic California King mattress about six months ago and it is awesome. We love it. I haven’t had a problem with it getting too hot and I’m always the one that wants to fan on and sleeps in minimal clothing. </p>
<p>Definitely a wise investment. Also, I don’t know much about the traditional frames because the BF built ours from scratch. It seems to have worked out pretty nicely. I would recommend the bed.</p>
<p>We have had a Tempurpedic for (we both forget exactly, but…) at least 10 years. It was pretty unknown when we bought it but we decided it was worth a try. We have never looked back.</p>
<p>Sleeps as well today as it did on Day One. I would never choose anything else. We use the pillows as well, and I have a travel Tempurpedic pillow. I take it everywhere.</p>
<p>We don’t have the foundation - our bed has a wood platform, although it is not a particularly contemporary style. I didn’t ever hear that that would void the warranty; but then again we’ve never needed the warranty.</p>
<p>When we first bought it, it was with a 30 day satisfaction guarantee or we could return it. That was certainly in force even though we didn’t buy a foundation.</p>
<p>Three related pieces of info:
- Brad Pitt quoted in Esquire magazine - paraphrased from memory: “Don’t buy a Tempurpedic mattress. Instead save money and buy any firm mattress and buy a Tempurpedic topper for it. You will love it.”
- If you like using an electric blanket, note that Tempurpedic says you should not use one with their mattress. It harms the foam or something like that.
- I just bought a new mattress that is fabulous - and I have a bad back. It is the Simmons Beutyrest World Class pillowtop. Got a good deal on it for $1199 for queen mattress and boxspring at Mattress Wholesalers. It was labelled for more, but they were happy to sell it for that.</p>
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Maybe Brad sleeps by himself but I’d think adding a foam topper won’t do much for the ‘jiggle-factor’ of a restless partner as the foam mattress does.</p>
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<p>Last month we dumped our “20 yr warranty but trashed in 10 yrs” Sealy posturepedic Crown Jewel pillowtop that we got from Bloomingdale’s. This time we got the Ikea Fangebo foam mattress for like $150 or so. Comes shrink wrapped, you load it in your car, let it expand for a couple of hours and then sleep on it the same night if you like. Don’t know about how long it will last. But it is so nice and light and easy to handle. And for now it is great.</p>
<p>confused about the platform/springs thing for under the foam. </p>
<p>OK, I would like to buy a King sized Tempurpedic but I don’t have a King sized bed…what do you folks do about bed frames? Do the platforms you buy for your Tempurpedic insert into any bed frame of the same size as if they are the “springs” portion? We do own a Qu bed frame and I would consider buying a Queen foam mattress, too. Is the platform necessary?</p>
<p>i got a serta perfect sleeper back in june and i love it. it’s so wonderful. i got it for like 350 or something as the floor model and it was originally like 1600 or something of that sort. great deal on my part :)</p>
<p>These are all great comments! Today, my H and I decided on a Simmons Beautyrest (Firm) with the nice padded top (it has latex covered by cotton batting). We layed on it for about a half hour taking turns jumping and jiggling. It was pretty firm.</p>
<p>We also bought a very sturdy solid wood sleigh bed that will hold the whole thing together. We opted not to go for the Memory Foam because we heard it gets hot. </p>
<p>We live in the Sonoran Desert and we both get hot at night anyway. Hopefully this will help. Will let you know how it all goes…</p>
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<p>When we got our Tempurpedic about 15 years ago, we just used the boxsprings that we had been using with our regular king-sized mattress. It worked fine.</p>
<p>RE: bed frames–lots of times, stores will throw in frames “for free”—the plain old metal frame that sits close to the floor, but has rollers aren’t very expensive and raise the mattress/box spring up to a reasonable level off the floor until you decide to get an actual bed (or leave it as is, as we did in our guest room)</p>
<p>^^ Yes, that’s what we have, too. The metal bed frames are bolted to the headboard, two twin-size boxsprings sit on the metal frames, and the kingsize Tempurpedic sits on top.</p>
<p>Never occurred to me that we didn’t have “an actual bed”, but I guess you’re talking about a bed with headboard and footboard and rails on the sides?</p>
<p>i actually perfer not having an ‘actual bed’ i just have the metal frames on mine. no headboard or anything like that. I like it better that way. we’ll see how that goes as i get older and whatnot… but i’ve been going headboard free for about six years or so now.</p>
<p>We got a Tempurpedic mattress this summer and love it. Additional side benefit is H doesn’t snore as much. He also doesn’t move around as much, or at least I don’t notice it. We also use the pillows; got started on these when H had neck surgery 3 yrs ago, and me recently when diagnosed with osteoarthritis in neck. </p>
<p>My SIL got the mattress 2yrs ago when she had and her H threw in the towel on arthiritis/age aches and pains. They swore by it. What prompted us was D1 getting her first apt and wanting to buy a queen size mattress instead of a twin (like home/dorm/sorority house). My achy shoulders/neck/back thought “why not give D1 our current mattress - still in good shape - and WE buy the new mattress and get Tempurpedic?” The shop we bought from not only delivered our mattress free; they took our old mattress and delivered IT to our D for free!</p>
<p>We got the mattress one step up from basic. It is supposed to have a layer that helps with the heat problem, but I don’t think the mattress is hot anyway. And it really, really helps eliminate the aches and pains (and the snoring!!!)</p>
<p>mercymom, I know I am being really literal here…but did you buy a new platform or did you buy their accompanying substitute for springs? And did you keep your Qu bedframe?</p>
<p>Whatever you buy, do consider moving up to a king if there are two of you. A king-size bed is the size of two twins shoved together (instead of hustling a king-sized frame through a house, the foundation for a king bed is two twins). Therefore, in a queen or a double (full) you have less room individually than if you each slept in a twin…like Rob and Laura Petrie. In a king, you can forget there’s another person there. It’s gotten to the point that we don’t sleep well if we are traveling and have only a queen because we run into each other and wake up.</p>
<p>By platform do you mean the “bottom part” of a mattress set? If so, then we bought both parts from Tempurpedic. We kept our origl queen size bed frame. It is Ethan Allen and has side bars and both head and foot rest, with metal bars going across in the middle. There is additional metal “foot” in the middle supporting the cross bars. The salesman said that would be plenty of support for the 2 piece Tempurpedic set.</p>
<p>fwiw - our old Simmons queen set had 2 pieces and we’d stored that metal floor frame it came with in the attic, so we sent that along with the mattress to D1. We went over to her place and H built the metal frame the night before the mattress guys came and they hauled the two pieces up 3 flights of stairs (god bless them). </p>
<p>I think if your origl frame has strong cross bars and center support for them, you’ll be fine with the weight of the Tempurpedic. Our Simmons was pretty darn heavy itself.</p>
<p>Novelisto - do you know how much it would cost to get a king size Tempurpedic? Not to mention then you’d need a bed frame for it and space to boot. We’d need a second mtge to pay for the mattress! Actually my SIL did get the king size, but they are dinks (double income no kids).</p>
<p>fwiw - H is going to DC next month on business and found a hotel with Tempurpedic mattresses…sweet!</p>
<p>Mercymom – Yes, I do know how much it costs. I have one…and it wasn’t cheap. But when you consider how often you ought to replace a typical mattress… $800-$1600 every 10 yrs though most people don’t replace often enough…and how much back pain pills/doctors/surgery costs, we decided it was a good value. </p>
<p>I wonder how many ‘back pain’ sufferers would find relief if they’d ditch their 25 yr old mattresses and buy something, anything, new. I know people who are still sleeping on mattresses that their parents gave them after the old folks slept on them for 20 yrs. Mattresses have a limited useful life…they are not ‘forever’. </p>
<p>Besides, I said ‘whatever you buy’, so if that means buying a second hand bedstead (which we did, saving well over a thousand bucks) and a el cheapo mattress, go bigger. Esp. if other sorts of frames have expanded from the time we were younger (we did that too!)</p>
<p>You’re probably right about the extra benefit from a king size bed, but the overall picture didn’t work for us right now. You are definitely right that spending the extra bucks on a good mattress and replacing an old one are worth it health-wise. We have only had the Tempur 3 months and already it is almost painful to “sleep” on a not-so-hot hotel bed, or the beds that my relatives have when we visit. Every penny we did spend was worth it.</p>
<p>We also have the travel size Tempur pillow. My SIL does too. I highly recommend that as well.</p>