Hi Kitty,

and everyone else that has posted on this thread.

Recently I woke one morning with PAIN in my right hip. How does one injury their hip while sleeping??? I sleep on my stomach and have my entire life. I will occasionally roll onto my side for a short time on rare occasion but my stomach is my basic sleep position.

I get too long winded in my posts so I will skip the trip to the doc, and just tell you that after a month or two, my hip is now back to normal.

Since this happened while I was IN BED sleeping, I began to wonder if it was my mattress. It FEELS comfortable but it does have a bit of age on it, actually a lot. It also LOOKS brand new as I have always used fitted bed pads on it.

I began to search online for a new mattress. (I have a fairly new box springs.) It is a double bed or full size and I sleep alone.

All the new mattresses have a high profile (8 inches high or higher) and I am short. I don't want a mattress that will make it difficult for me to get in and out of the bed. My feet touch the floor with the mattress I have now and it is the perfect height for getting in and out of the bed. I also have a lot of sheet sets that will not fit a higher profile mattress and I don't want to have to buy new sheets. If I had wanted to do that, I would have gotten a new queen size when I bought my new box springs.

I looked into the mattress toppers while I was doing my online search for mattresses. I tend to get hot easily during the night and have night sweats so a foam topper will not work for me. I see you can get a combo gel/foam topper that allows heat transfer and keeps one cooler during the night.

I am also thinking about just getting a cheap egg crate to try first, just to see if that will help before going to the expense of something more, like a topper or a new mattress.

I "think" my mattress may be creating pressure points and that is what happened to my hip. Not sure but I don't want to go through another two months of hip pain if it is my mattress.

I just don't want my bed to be too high from ANY addition or replacement to keep my feet from touching the floor and making it too difficult to get in and out of the bed. I don't want to have to use a step stool.

My next door neighbor had a bed that would take a ladder for me to get in or out of it.

I plan to go "shop" and try out some at mattress stores this week if I am up to it.

I would welcome any comments from others.

How is your topper working for you, Kitty?