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09-13-2014, 10:07 AM
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Thread Starter
Joined APC: May 2006
Position: C-172
Posts: 7,654
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Mattress recommendation
Our mattress has butt depressions even though we flip and turn it every 3 months. I think it's time to get a new one before my back finally goes out.
Any recommendations? Anyone try those memory foam things?
What about buckwheat pillows?
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09-13-2014, 10:27 AM
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Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2013
Posts: 795
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Maybe you could experiment with different positions?
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09-13-2014, 04:46 PM
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Line Holder
Joined APC: Jul 2014
Position: Retired to saddle of my horse
Posts: 37
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I used to have that problem. Got a Sleep Number which is basically a fancy air mattress. No more problem. The wife likes it and I can sleep on about anything after 36 or so years of flying so it works for us. Had it for 10 years or so.
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09-13-2014, 05:41 PM
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Working weekends
Joined APC: Jul 2005
Position: Left Seat
Posts: 2,209
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Instead of an entire new mattress, try a memory foam mattress topper, which we like very much at our house. No butt marks yet
That is unless the mattress is 30 years old of course.....
http://www.costco.com/memory-foam-mattress-toppers.html
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09-13-2014, 06:32 PM
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Flying Farmer
Joined APC: Jul 2006
Position: Turbo-props' and John Deere's
Posts: 3,159
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Serta iComfort is what my wife and I have bought in the last 9 months. $2000 i think, but worth it! We had sore backs each morning on the old spring mattress, it was a cheap one I had from my first years out of college, about 8yrs old, and it had dips and lumps for several years.
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09-13-2014, 07:17 PM
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New Hire
Joined APC: Jan 2014
Posts: 8
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 2old2fly
...Sleep Number...
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Best thing to do. Works good, lasts a long time.
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09-14-2014, 12:40 AM
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Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Aug 2013
Posts: 327
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vagabond
What about buckwheat pillows?
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My better half has one of these buckwheat pillows and swears its the best thing ever invented...I hate it though, so I guess its one of those things you really have to try for yourself
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09-14-2014, 02:54 AM
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Super Moderator
Joined APC: Mar 2007
Position: Tiki bar
Posts: 2,653
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ewfflyer
Serta iComfort is what my wife and I have bought in the last 9 months. $2000 i think, but worth it!
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This is what we have as well. It's amazing. Well worth the money!
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09-14-2014, 03:37 AM
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Frequent Furlough Club
Joined APC: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,160
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We have an icomfort also. The first night or two wasn't great, but every night after that has been incredible. Love that bed.
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09-14-2014, 05:22 PM
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Runs with scissors
Joined APC: Dec 2009
Position: Going to hell in a bucket, but enjoying the ride .
Posts: 7,447
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I had a water bed in College and my first 10 years of marriage, my wife loved it when she was pregnant with twins...until she got to about 7 months and couldn't climb out of it!
She looked like a beetle stuck on it's back, arms and legs flailing away, screaming, "Help! I can't get out!"
We gave it away when we moved, but I did love that bed, made a lot of babies on that thing!
Do they even make water beds any more? I haven't seen or heard anything about them in over 20 years.
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