For the past few years during the winter time I've noticed an increasing amount of back pain during the night. I've talked to my doctor about it and she simply said to buy a new mattress. Although I didn't believe her, we were about due for a new one and so we bought a new, very high quality mattress. I'm still having the pain. Our bed is butted up against an outside wall and I believe this is somehow allowing dampness to come in and enter the mattress, causing me the back pain. I've thought of buying a thicker, padded headboard – but in the meantime to get a similar effect I've placed thick down pillows between the wall and the bed, but still the back pain persists! If worse comes to worse we're going to have to try moving the bed to an inside wall, although that's going to be a real pain in the you-know-what because our bedroom is so tiny we'll have to move some of the furniture somewhere else in the house (its ceiling height and limited to where in the room it can go due to some variations in ceiling height!).
Has anyone else experienced back pain due to dampness in the mattress? What have you done to relieve the pain?
For the past few years during the winter time I've noticed an increasing amount of back pain during the night. I've talked to my doctor about it and she simply said to buy a new mattress. Although I didn't believe her, we were about due for a new one and so we bought a new, very high quality mattress. I'm still having the pain. Our bed is butted up against an outside wall and I believe this is somehow allowing dampness to come in and enter the mattress, causing me the back pain. I've thought of buying a thicker, padded headboard – but in the meantime to get a similar effect I've placed thick down pillows between the wall and the bed, but still the back pain persists! If worse comes to worse we're going to have to try moving the bed to an inside wall, although that's going to be a real pain in the you-know-what because our bedroom is so tiny we'll have to move some of the furniture somewhere else in the house (its ceiling height and limited to where in the room it can go due to some variations in ceiling height!).
Has anyone else experienced back pain due to dampness in the mattress? What have you done to relieve the pain?
I can't speak about damp mattresses, but as far as mattresses in general, I was getting an achy back just about every morning, so I stopped sleeping on it. I just slept on the floor. It was uncomfortable at first, but I could tell my back was liking it more, even when I slept on my side. A few months later, still on the floor, my back feels great - but I think I have to give jogging some credit for that too.
I stayed at my dads house and they had an air mattress on the floor, and I found that my back hurt there as well. In fact its hurting so much now that I find it goes thru my back and affects my chest now as well, my breastbone is starting to hurt. I saw my doctor about it and she said its a reaction from lack of exercise (I used to work out regularly but haven't lately, so it makes sense), but when I try and exercise now it hurts so much I can't do more than about 5 minutes if that. Could it be pnemonia from the dampness?
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For the past few years during the winter time I've noticed an increasing amount of back pain during the night. I've talked to my doctor about it and she simply said to buy a new mattress. Although I didn't believe her, we were about due for a new one and so we bought a new, very high quality mattress. I'm still having the pain. Our bed is butted up against an outside wall and I believe this is somehow allowing dampness to come in and enter the mattress, causing me the back pain. I've thought of buying a thicker, padded headboard ? but in the meantime to get a similar effect I've placed thick down pillows between the wall and the bed, but still the back pain persists! If worse comes to worse we're going to have to try moving the bed to an inside wall, although that's going to be a real pain in the you-know-what because our bedroom is so tiny we'll have to move some of the furniture somewhere else in the house (its ceiling height and limited to where in the room it can go due to some variations in ceiling height!).
Has anyone else experienced back pain due to dampness in the mattress? What have you done to relieve the pain?
I can't speak about damp mattresses, but as far as mattresses in general, I was getting an achy back just about every morning, so I stopped sleeping on it. I just slept on the floor. It was uncomfortable at first, but I could tell my back was liking it more, even when I slept on my side. A few months later, still on the floor, my back feels great - but I think I have to give jogging some credit for that too.
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I stayed at my dads house and they had an air mattress on the floor, and I found that my back hurt there as well. In fact its hurting so much now that I find it goes thru my back and affects my chest now as well, my breastbone is starting to hurt. I saw my doctor about it and she said its a reaction from lack of exercise (I used to work out regularly but haven't lately, so it makes sense), but when I try and exercise now it hurts so much I can't do more than about 5 minutes if that. Could it be pnemonia from the dampness?
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For the past few years during the winter time I've noticed an increasing amount of back pain during the night. I've talked to my doctor about it and she simply said to buy a new mattress. Although I didn't believe her, we were about due for a new one and so we bought a new, very high quality mattress. I'm still having the pain. Our bed is butted up against an outside wall and I believe this is somehow allowing dampness to come in and enter the mattress, causing me the back pain. I've thought of buying a thicker, padded headboard ? but in the meantime to get a similar effect I've placed thick down pillows between the wall and the bed, but still the back pain persists! If worse comes to worse we're going to have to try moving the bed to an inside wall, although that's going to be a real pain in the you-know-what because our bedroom is so tiny we'll have to move some of the furniture somewhere else in the house (its ceiling height and limited to where in the room it can go due to some variations in ceiling height!).
Has anyone else experienced back pain due to dampness in the mattress? What have you done to relieve the pain?
I can't speak about damp mattresses, but as far as mattresses in general, I was getting an achy back just about every morning, so I stopped sleeping on it. I just slept on the floor. It was uncomfortable at first, but I could tell my back was liking it more, even when I slept on my side. A few months later, still on the floor, my back feels great - but I think I have to give jogging some credit for that too.
