Replacing a 15 Year Old Pillow-Top Mattress

Hi Pete,
I am in my late 50s and have been having mid-shoulder and right hip pain for a couple of years now. I sleep on my side (usually my right side). My husband sleeps on his back and has no problems. 
We’re replacing our expensive, pillow-top mattress that is now 15 years old. I can see where it sags in the middle on my side. 
We weigh 140/147 lbs, respectively. 

A friend warned me to stay away from any mattress with memory foam. She said that when she turns over at night, the foam doesn’t adjust quickly enough to match her body shape and she feels uncomfortable. 

We can afford a high quality bed but I don't know what to get. 
What would you suggest?
Thanks, Patricia
 
Hi Patricia,
Your friend is right about that, but there are several more reasons why a memory foam mattress is a bad choice. 
Because it doesn’t respond quickly to you changing positions, you tend to wake… disrupting your sleep.
Memory foam tends to wear quickly.
Memory foam is temperature sensitive. It absorbs your body’s heat and reflects that heat back to you, causing your to sleep hot.
Worst of all, it off gasses the toxic chemicals from which it’s made.
It’s just a horrible product… the worst upholstery material ever invented.

Also, this business of being able to afford an expensive mattress is something I'd suggest keeping to yourself when you go shopping. 
If you try it once, you'll notice a change in the behavior of most salespeople...kinda like the giddy anticipation of an easy kill from a pack of hyenas. Ok, that might be a slight exaggeration...as far as their behavior is concerned...but not about how they're feeling inside.

The upholstery materials are the most expensive part of a mattress. The more padding there is on a mattress, the quicker it will wear out. It's better for you, and your long term comfort, to buy a mattress that provides long lasting support and adding a soft latex topper, which provides excellent comfort that lasts for many years. Then, all you’ll need to replace is the topper when the time comes.

You got 15 years from a pillowtop made 15 years ago. 
You'd be lucky to get 5 from one made today. 
You're better off avoiding those entirely. 

You've been out of the market for 15 years. It was about that time when the the industry moguls decided that didn’t want to wait 10 to 15 years for the consumer to be back in the mattress buying market. Since then, mattresses are made to last a much shorter period of time. The thing that they're selling now, is comfort...luxury. 
The things they're using to make those sales are: memory foam and pillowtops. And making the sale is all they're good for.

We carry a number of good choices for mattress....for their durability and support....without memory foam and without pillowtops. 

Two, in particular leap to mind, from PlushBeds… a leading manufacturer of high quality mattresses.
Their Best Buy… Their Luxury Bliss model, using pocketed coils for maintaining proper spinal alignment and pure, organic and hypoallergenic latex upholstery.
Their Top of the Line… Their Royal Bliss model, also using a pocketed coil unit for support, but several more exotic upholstery layers in addition to the latex.

Given your weights I recommend the choice of Medium for either.
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PlushBeds Luxury Bliss Mattress 
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PlushBeds Luxury Bliss Mattress

PlushBeds….Royal Bliss Luxury Mattress 
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PlushBeds….Royal Bliss Luxury Mattress

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​A latex topper is soft and resilient and will greatly increase the longevity of any mattress you buy.
Latex for Less has the lowest prices on the highest quality latex toppers… Pure, Organic and Hypoallergenic.
The 3” Soft is the most comfortable.
Be sure to get the organic cotton cover to go with it.
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Please, let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks, Pete - TME 
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