| If you suffer from fibromyalgia, you may benefit | | | | Generally, the best expert suggestion seems to be |
| from a quality mattress that is manufactured | | | | that it is best to purchase a standard type mattress |
| especially to relieve pressure points and to provide | | | | with firm support and then simply add a softer pillow |
| gentle support throughout the night. About 2% of | | | | top to the surface. This will provide underlying spinal |
| the U.S. population suffers from fibromyalgia and | | | | support while also adding a soft surface that will |
| insomnia is one of the most common complaints | | | | soothe tender joints and muscles. Also, a topper can |
| from those who suffer from this painful illness. It is a | | | | more easily be replaced if its filling begins to settle |
| chronic condition that causes widespread pain in the | | | | and there is not the major investment in a topper as |
| joints, ligaments, muscles as well as causing tender | | | | there is in a mattress. |
| points all over the body. Many sufferers have found | | | | More specifically, fibromyalgia sufferers have found |
| that the right mattress can help alleviate painful | | | | that a more natural selection of material in |
| trigger points as well as provide a better night's sleep. | | | | mattresses may also be healthier and more |
| Treatment for fibromyalgia is varied and often an | | | | comfortable than just any standard type of mattress |
| ongoing lifestyle adjustment for most sufferers. | | | | material. Organic latex mattresses may be a healthier |
| Lifestyle remedies are important for those who | | | | choice and can provide supreme support as well as |
| suffer. Finding a way to get a good night's sleep is a | | | | body forming comfort. Some are made from |
| major avenue in providing long term healing and | | | | combination materials such as organic cotton, wool |
| lessening of day to day pain. Since fatigue and body | | | | and layers of latex while others are formed as a one |
| pain are two of the main characteristics of the illness, | | | | piece, dense latex product. Other pluses to |
| a good night's sleep is the single most important | | | | purchasing latex bedding materials is the fact that |
| element in treating these problems. Getting sufficient | | | | latex is a natural dust mite deterrent. Dust mites |
| sleep allows the body to heal, reduces muscular | | | | cannot live in the fibers and those who want a |
| stress and provides mental relief from constant pain | | | | completely dust free sleep environment will |
| that occurs continually. While there are several | | | | appreciate this detail. Also, latex is highly durable and |
| treatments used to help patients receive relief during | | | | can last for 20 or 30 years without settling or caving |
| their nighttime disruptions of sleep such as | | | | in to body weight over time. |
| medications and stress relief techniques, the right | | | | Many people who have serious body pain prefer to |
| mattress can be the single most important product | | | | purchase a latex mattress and then add a down |
| used. | | | | pillow topper for the extra softness required to |
| What is the right mattress or sleep surface for | | | | relieve joint stress. Others have found that they do |
| fibromyalgia sufferers? Surprisingly, it is suggested to | | | | well with only adding a latex pillow topper to their |
| some patients that the softest mattress or pillowtop | | | | existing mattress provided it rests on a good frame |
| bedding may not be the best in the long run. While a | | | | for good body support. There are any number of |
| new, very soft mattress may initially feel wonderful | | | | combinations that can be configured to provide a |
| to someone with sensitive pressure points, the | | | | superb sleep surface for those who have |
| mattress filling will undoubtedly settle and not be as | | | | fibromyalgia. The final determining factor will of |
| soft as before. It can become lumpy, hard or uneven | | | | course be the price when purchasing the best sleep |
| and eventually cause as much pain as before. Also, | | | | surface. Keep in mind, however, that good health is |
| the typical pillowtop bedding may do the same thing, | | | | worth more than gold when it comes to getting a |
| even though pillowtops are advertised as providing an | | | | good night's rest which is a major factor in relieving |
| extra soft sleep surface. | | | | the symptoms of fibromyalgia. |