mattress advice for arthritis sufferer
Hello!
I am suffering from sleep deprivation thanks to arthritic hips and an ancient, rotten mattress, and am in urgent need of help!
I am 7.5 stone and am wanting to buy a double mattress (and, possibly, a sprung base to go with it). I’ve tried lying on various Harrison ‘gentle’ mattresses (a Sapphire 8000, a Something 5000 and one with a sort of built-in mattress topper), and they all feel quite good on the face of it – though it’s hard to tell whether they’re right even after a couple of hours. I’m willing to spend up to about £1300 on the right mattress (though would obviously prefer to spend much less!), but am frightened of making an expensive mistake. I also get hot in bed easily, and am avoiding memory foam like the proverbial plague. My current bed has a slatted base, and I gather that even sprung slats can make a mattress feel firmer than I would like. That being the case, I suspect I might need to buy a mattress and sprung base together?
I would ideally sleep on my side (though can’t at the moment due to the pressure on my hips being intolerable on my current mattress). It is so long since I didn’t wake up several times in the night in pain that I have forgotten how it feels to have slept through the night. I’d be hugely grateful for any advice. .
Hi Hippy.
For the benefit of other readers we have been talking to each other quite a lot and as your weight is on the extreme light side, your requirements do fall outside the norm. We are currently producing a mattress which will be ideal for people of a very light bodyweight.
| Bodyweight | Spring tension |
|---|---|
| Upto 16 Stone / 50-101kg | Medium (1.4mm) |
| 16 Stone / 101kg Upwards | Firm (1.6mm) |
| Available in Bespoke Products (Please Call) | Soft (1.2mm) |
As you point out in your comment, there is precious little in our range to suit. Lightweight people such as yourself, and taking into account arthritis means that the upholstery cannot be too compressed or too firm to create pressure points. Therefore, we recommended you to look at the Vi-Spring Coronet as a mattress most suitable for your needs and requirements. The Coronet is fundamentally a wool and cotton based mattress and coupled with the right spring tension (soft) for your bodyweight seems to be the ideal mattress build for you.
As you now know, we are manufacturing a comparable model for you (Artisan) and will add this to our site once completed and you have given it a dry run.If other readers are of similar build and have similar requirements please get in touch and we can take it from there.
John and Ryan.
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