Sat 04 Apr 26: Chilly overnight (for us, of course). probably high 50s, which is indicative of high pressure -- so hopefully some nice weather for Wash Day tmw... Recently chg'd bedding from the prior setup (expensive memory foam atop cheaper dbl-layer foam) -- which was fine for some time... but had an inkling the way the supposedly higher-value mattress topper were made, were more for some almost-indistinguishable amt of cooling (wif a blended white-&-2-blues color scheme baked in from the factory, apparently to reassure buyers )... plus a quickly deteriorating capacity to actually wake w/o pain. It's so compromised for add'l features rather than actual support -- which is the whole reason why you pay extra for memory foam, the support. What were actually happening... is my hips and torso'd sink into the stuff > 80% of its unloaded thickness (2"), and body warmth would degrade that to < ¼". Leaving the lighter bits of my body floating atop it, esp shoulders and arms. The cooling effect also would last about a min before feeling like slipping on a very oversized neoprene wetsuit over the contact half of my body Comp'd that wif a pair of cooling fitted sheets... but needing allergy protection due to the ever-persistent dust issue downwind from miles of poorly-managed cropland, meant they had to be very poorly moisture-wicking -- resulting in only slightly less soaking during the month... plus 100% humidity bain-marie-baking us like Cinnabons in our beds, esp when power'd cut out. Procrastinated on the solution, since you can't test a mattress topper in the store before buying But finally tired of waking wif shoulder and thigh issues from wonky sleep support... so dove into the problem. In essence, simply dbl'd the dbl'd original cheaper memory foam, resulting in a luxurious-sounding 4" of topper. This cheaper stuff doesn't have all the claims-to-feature the pricey $50 one did... but significantly more supportive in a way I prefer (not waking w/ upper limb / joint issues). Also sh*tcanned the more impervious (and far more expensive) cooling allergy-barrier fitted sheet of the two, and replaced wif an identical flow-through cooling one, lower allergy rating. Weirdly like two layers of lycra, stretching around like women's leggings... but I'd not steam like a bao in a rainy week. Attached the somewhat-comical elastic suspenders underneath, to keep the show tucked and in-place*... and found the whole setup was about half inch less thick than before, hmm. A quick lie-down had me cheering tho, as this simpler setup was indeed far more like a $400 foam mattress -- much more supportive. A sleep would be the litmus test so reserved final judgment for it... Got up about 4am (fell asleep ~10pm). Obvi expected the body after using that wonked setup from last summer to now, would object a little bit... and did so, mostly in the neck (old setup allowed shoulders to sink whilst leaving the head suspended, stretching the neck and causing slight neck issues at first, then body adapted). However, turning the head to the other side 45º (an adaptation pre-CPAP to allow more airflow past my apparently fatso-gullet), resulted in 0 pain, which felt weird tbbh. Amazing how when forced we make friends with pain, Stockholm-syndrome-style Moreso the longer hours I'd sleep the worse this issue got... so if rousing before 7 hrs, no problem for sleep length nor pain. And the protest this time were also in neck and L shoulder, but far less than even the best day on the old. So need to give the body a minute to adapt, as injured R knee -- which hated the merest fraction of a point off perfectly fluffed and positioned on the aging conventional mattress underneath -- popped up, no problem. The old setup let the heel sink further into itself than calf or thigh... so knee's bent under tension all night. Apparently this new setup chg'd that, hopefully indefinitely -- can get used to waking w/o needing to nurse both hams / quads a few secs on random days (a sign your knee joint's interior tissues are being held in a position damaging to it over long-term). So yeah. Realising and thus confirming, I didn't need to spend almost dbl the amt for the useless, all marketing-blather old topper, was a horse pill. But all fixed now, hopefully * got them at Wally's in the search for toppers -- attach wif these odd silicone knobs which wire loops fasten around when sheets cover the knob. Seems like any movement'd sproing these things off in mins... but they've held onto the thicker bad topper + good dbl'd foam, so see no issue wif the thinner setup. Installed correctly, tho... looks like you're trying to hide the fact your topper has both suspenders and a G-string on --- bodywork story after day's clients --- sorry, client work today was routine, not enough to remind of past stories. Hope Mon brings something more reportable
