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Gregory, sorry to say it but a mattress that sags is not a good one. mine is almost 10 yrs old and has supported many(hihi) bf, and its' still comfy and in good shape. i think it is a serta.

my next mattress is going to be a cusotm made in pure wool like the one my parents have, sturdy but comfy and long lasting. it will only cost me a trillion but..by that time i hope i will have found a co-sposnor (aka another bf that will last longer..)

but this looks like a good solution.
did i save myself with this last sentence? :-)

My husband and I have a Simmons mattress which we paid close to $2,000 for. It is having the same problem. "Body depressions" on both mine and my husbands side. I have not attempted to contact the manufacturer, because I too have read a bunch of posts that have put me off about even trying to get the company to do anything about it. Now the middle of the bed where neither my husband or I lie on, is the best part of the bed, still nice and fluffy. Rather pathetic for a mattress company that has been around so long.

Oh no!
How long did it take before it started sagging?
I was just considering that mattress.

Our Simmons mattress is 9 years old and cost around $500. It is sagging in the middle now (we like a good cuddle). We don't have a box spring but use an Ikea bed with flats. I flip the mattress religiously every three months but methinks it's a goner now.

In a time of desperation I actually put recycled bubble wrap under an inexpensive foam mattress topper to shore up my aging mattress. A bit noisy, but it worked.

It took about 8 years for the body imprints to show up in our Simmons. I flipped it every 3-4 months.

I'm a little sad no one has anything to say about the fix-it side of things in this post. I was so excited to find out if something like this really works and there's nothing here!
Has anyone used these products? Would you recommend them?

Yikes, sounds like a nightmare. But for those of you who have had your mattresses for a while, remember it's okay (and recommended) to replace your mattress every 10 years or so.

Just one more year for me--I can't imagine all the dust mites and stuff that must be living in there...

just wanted to thank you for the morrissey shout-out. there's a morrissey quote for every occasion...

My husband and I finally purchased a king size bed. We used to have a saggy pillowtop Sealy and oh what a difference!

The secret is buy a firm mattress and then get a really great topper. I found a Serta firm mattress for only $700 and then bought a 4 inch memory foam topper on Overstock.com for $160.00. Much cheaper than $1500 for a pillowtop or plush.

Our bed feels like heaven - but it sure is hard to get out of bed in the morning!

I haven't noticed a sag on my actual mattress. But there is occasionally a dip in the featherbed on top of the mattress (which is easily remedied when I shake it out). Maybe I'll try sleeping on the mattress without the featherbed to see if mine is sagging, too...

You have to rotate the mattress occassionally (every 3 months?) so that the mattress wears evenly.

If you don't - you're naturally going to get the compression in the spot where you sleep and nowhere else.

yes, forget about getting a mattress company to honor its warranty. i tried that after having mine for only 4 years.
i was told that i would have to take photos that would prove (with a ruler to stick in the depression and a straight edge to indicate the original height) the depth of the "crater". it had to be at least one inch..... i will now purchase a very firm mattress, and a separate "mattress topper" that i can take to goodwill after the inevitable depressions.

The depression was noticeable 6 months in. It is the kind of mattress you're not suppose to flip. As for rotating it, the mattress is not square, it's an eastern king so we could not do that, we have turned it 180 degrees, but we're still sleeping in the depression areas, no way around it.

Mattresses have shelf lives....don't prolong its ( and your) misery after year 8-10.

Maude, you will not regret it. When I told the salesman what I wanted to do, he said that most consumers don't realize that when they buy a pillowtop mattress it is the same as a firm but with all the extra padding on top. The padding always breaks down so quickly even with rotation.

Also you should price a couple of beds and see if you can get a better price. I went to 2 different stores and when I got a lower price quote I asked the salesman to write down on a business card and went back to the other store and got a huge price break. Make them fight for your hard earned money! :)

bepsf: I rotate our mattress once every 1-2 months religiously. The fact that my side is the one that always has the dip has led to be conclude it is the weight of two people in one section causing the issue. Unless it was that binge of nachos that did me in...

foodiegirl I totally have the same problem. My husband and I bought a California King this past summer and we have the depression in the pillow top portion. Our next bed will be a firm without the pillow top since the actual mattress is just fine. Lessons learned.

Assuming you have a flippable mattress and a box spring, I would suggest rotating and flipping your mattress several times a year. If the depression persists, a sheet of 3/4" plywood between mattress and box spring and an Ikea mattress topper completely eliminated the dip.

oh crap...i just bought a pillowtop!

Oh man. I've been looking at a Simmons World Class pillowtop - it felt wonderful in the store but there were hundreds of unsatisfied customer reviews online.

I'm hoping I can get the same mattress in Firm and duplicate the pillowtop feeling with a mattress topper, but I don't really like memory foam - we live in a very hot climate. The Simmons I liked had a latex pillowtop. Does anyone have any suggestions?