What type of mattress do you find to be best on your back?

Way to go girl, wooohooo! I'm so pleased you found a solution! Nothing like a good cuddle and it will do hubbies back a lot of good too I expect!

Oh yes, the position I sleep in has a lot to do with how I feel when I wake up. I have trouble sleeping on my right side. Any time I do I wake up with my shoulkder and neck just killing me. However, I discovered a few nights ago, that if I place two pillows under my head instead of just one, and place them so that the pillow meets and tucks under my neck, but my shoulders not on them, I do not have a problem and can sleep on my right side all night long and wake up pain free! I love to sleep cuddled up to my hubby, but he cannot sleep on his left side because of pain, so my discovery a feww days ago made me very happy and now I am cuddling up to hubby all night long : )

Oh yeah, hubby loves it and he says it feels really good to his back when I'm snuggled in behind him, very cozy : )

My husband and I have Temperpedic mattress. It's amazing! I remember when he first bought it, my instinct was to bounce on it. It doens't bounce... is absorbs the energy and deadens the bounce-back. So that's no fun, but other than that it is an amazing mattress!!

I would love to get the temperpedic mattress. The one we have now is from Wal-Mart and is a spa select or something like that. It is still a really nice mattress and at a cost of the temperpedic, but I still wantto get the temper one day when I can afford to spend that much on a bed.

Well I wrote up a nice post and it got lost in cyber space, LOL As you I too need a firm mattress, but with a little bit of cush to it, if that makes sense. The memory foam mattress wal-mart has for $230.00 is really nice. A great make do if you cannot afford the big brand name memory foam mattress. I know what you mean about it being difficult to sleep, it is almost immpossible when you are in pain with your back.

Oh how I know the nightly work out, LOL I had the same problems pretty much as you with getting comfy. I had a good mattress, at least for what it cost it should have been good. Was one of thos posterpedics mattresses, or something like that. It was the kind that is supposed to give back pain sufferers a good nights sleep. That thing killed me every night! I tried cussions on the bare floor and that worked well, but I needed so many bed topper cussion that is was hard to keep them all together, they wanted to slide off each other. Then at Christmas a friend from Church bought us a memory foam mattress with a contour foam bottom. Cathy I am telling this bed is a dream come true! I have no doubt one of the more expensive beds with the memory foam would be really nice too. The select comfort and sleep number beds has a memory foam top don't they? I want the Temprapedic bed. Darrell has a select comfort bed and he said it is awesome on the back. As for a memory foam topper, or any foam mattress topper for that matter, they don't work on top of a mattress, I've been there and done that and it actually made my back hurt more.

Oh water beds... I always loved water beds, they rock you to sleep so nicely. Unfortunatly I have had a bad back since I was 20 nyears old and that ended my water bed days :( I so miss sleeping on a water bed, just because I loved the rock to sleep of the waves in the bed : )