JDSeller Glad your back on the forum. I almost always learn something from your posts. (FWIW: I have enjoyed Old Iowas posts too).
Maybe You can learn something from me for a change: I am a couple decades younger than you (early 40's) but I also suffered from severe lower back pain and many a sleepless night. I would wake-up more tired than when I went to bed and still in pain. Well 3 years or so ago the wife and I splurged (for us anyway) and purchased a fully adjustable slat bed frame (kinda like a Craftmatic bed but 100's of times better than a Craftmatic bed due to the slat suspension system and it has much more adjustability in several axis as compared to a Craftmatic) and an all natural latex foam mattress. Total price was around $6000 I think.
I know $6k seems outragous to sleep (it did to us too), But the question is what is a good nights and painfree sleep worth to you? Here is what it as done for me: I now sleep through the night and my back pain is all gone. I resumed playing full court basketball again 3 nights a week in competitve full court leagues with young men in their early 20's (again I am in my 40's) and also I have been playing comptetivie softball again with young men in their 20's. I had previously been retired from doing this for decades due to my back pain. I still ATV ride at a high level which I had never totally given up but I was suffering to do it - now no suffering. Long story short, I am your classic old man weekend warrior, but I am now doing it all painfree now. Oh and to keep this post truly farming related: I will state that my favorite part of hay baling is throwing the small square bales around. Main reason I still do it is for the physical workout of handling the bales (or idiot cubes as many refer to them).
Anyway, If any of this sounds interesting PM me and I will send you the info of the bed dealer that I dealt with as his pricing was siginifigantly better than anyones - even internet. His knowledge was better than all others that I found anywhere. The guy is a bit eccentric but he definitely knows his stuff when it comes to beds and sleep. (note: I am not affiliated with this business in any way and I will not receive any financial kickbacks for giving the info. I am merely a satified customer and nothing more).
I do know that what seemed like an outragous $6k expenditure at the time has been a real bargain for me as I got a large portion of my life back (a portion that I had truly missed more than I had even realized) and the relief from the pain has been priceless.
This post was edited by rankrank1 at 11:42:55 09/16/12 2 times.
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