Mattress topper question

[swbsam]

Due to circumstances that are too emo to post, my fiance and I moved to a new apartment with very little notice and very little funding. We're buying furniture as we can afford it and, since beds are pretty crucial, we ended up purchasing a queen mattress that wasn't very comfortable (but at a price point we could afford).

Cut to just a week later and my back and neck are quite sore and I'm trying to think of ways to tame this overly firm mattress dilemma. One solution I thought of was perhaps getting a cheap feather bed from overstock (down mattress topper) and then throwing a 1 or 2 inch memory foam pad over that - would that work?

I'd try the feather bed alone but the reviews point to the cheap feathers "poking" through - would the memory foam be a solution to the pokes? Would the foam supplement the cushiness of the feather bed or would they kinda cancel each other out?

I know this isn't a mattress forum but you guys seem to known any and everything

 

[Xavier434]

Yes, it will help but it may not be enough to solve the issue completely. In any case, it is the cheapest work around to make it better.

 

[yours truly]

hey, i have a tempur mattress. its a memory foam bed. its ok. but i'd recommend a pocket sprung mattress, if you can afford it

 

[caspur]

Just get a thicker foam. Make sure you get a heavier one, as it will be denser and last longer. You could go el-cheapo and buy a king size and trim to fit. (then you have a little left over for the dog or something). I bought one from amazon when it was on sale.

 

[GasX]

forget the featherbed, just get the best memory foam pad you can afford

 

[Throckmorton]

Put the foam on top of the mattress and then put something on top of it to give your skin room to breathe, otherwise you'll get sweaty

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: Throckmorton
Put the foam on top of the mattress and then put something on top of it to give your skin room to breathe, otherwise you'll get sweaty

Yeh, I don't know what it is about memory foam, but that stuff makes me sweat like no other. I have an air matress that has a memory foam topper. Used that a few nights in between homes and woke up drenched.

FWIW, I actually find the basic egg shell foam toppers more comfortable than the memory foam. I also don't sweat any where as much. And they cost 1/10th the price.

 

[Kelvrick]

Originally posted by: vi edit

Originally posted by: Throckmorton
Put the foam on top of the mattress and then put something on top of it to give your skin room to breathe, otherwise you'll get sweaty

Yeh, I don't know what it is about memory foam, but that stuff makes me sweat like no other. I have an air matress that has a memory foam topper. Used that a few nights in between homes and woke up drenched.

FWIW, I actually find the basic egg shell foam toppers more comfortable than the memory foam. I also don't sweat any where as much. And they cost 1/10th the price.

I have one of those all foam things from costco. It gets hot as it doesn't breathe well at all. I put a down topper on top and it made things a lot better.

Switch your idea around and put the foam under the down topper.

 

[Bryophyte]

I had a memory foam mattress topper that had a down filled top built in. It made a hard futon bearable to sleep on. I slept on that thing for several years.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
forget the featherbed, just get the best memory foam pad you can afford

QFT...or better sheets over the featherbed.

Even when I was broke I could find a decent mattress though.

 

[Pollock]

A bit OT, but...anyone had success with memory foam pillows? I have a cheap memory foam mattress, but my neck still kills all the time, and I wondered if one of those could be the solution.

 

[Chunkee]

i knew a guy that made roaches from it