You’ve got to sleep. If you don’t sleep, you’ll suffer physically and mentally. Too much sleep or too little sleep are both extremes that can result in weight gain for various reasons. If you don’t get enough sleep, your brain won’t work right. Have you ever heard of REM ( Rapid Eye Movement) sleep? Without it, your brain doesn’t work right. You may just hallucinate.
Getting The Balance Right Can Be Difficult
The thing is, if you are going to get the best sleep, you need a good mattress. Many different mattresses out there are designed for a diversity of people; they’re engineered to serve diverse needs. What you need to do is figure out what the specific issues you’re dealing with are, and how they’re best-remedied highs, depending, as a means of relieving pressure. In a pinch, if you can’t find the right mattress, such measures can help. But you need something more sustainable and as a side-sleeper,
For example, many people contend with back problems that keep them from sleeping right. One solution can be to put a pillow between your knees or that means the right mattress.
In this writing, we’ll take a closer look at the issues you’re most likely to contend with if you prefer to sleep on your side, what mattresses are designed to help you get the rest you need, and how to make the best choice.
First: Pressure Is Your Enemy
The thing that will most often contribute to a loss in rest as you sleep will be pressure. When you’re on your belly, there’s pressure. When you’re on your back, there’s pressure. When you’re on your side, the weight of your leg can bear down on your hips, contributing to back pain—so the first thing you’re looking for in a mattress is design related to pressure relief.
From there, you want to look into things like heat, rigidity, and levels of comfort designed to most effectively match your needs. There are a whole family of mattresses out there with different qualities built around these issues.
Memory Foam And Other Side Sleeper Options
Memory foam conforms to your body and relieves unhelpful pressure while providing enough rigidity that you don’t get “too much of a good thing”. If you’ve got no rigidity whatever this will cause you physical issues. However, the big problem with memory foam is that it tends to retain warmth unduly, ultimately making you uncomfortable enough you don’t get enough rest.
This is one reason many side sleepers design to hybrid options. That is: you’ll have a mattress that includes coil springs and memory foam together. The heat doesn’t get trapped, the mattress is neither too rigid nor too soft, and so the side sleeper is able to get the rest he or she needs.
Sometimes this doesn’t provide quite enough rigidity for some sleepers, though, and that’s when they’ll go for what’s known as an “innerspring” mattress. These provide greater rigidity than other options. If you’re not used to that, though, you could be dealing with something like what people who sleep on hard surfaces feel: too much rigidity. That reduces rest and leads to complication.
Lastly, there’s the latex option. Latex mattresses don’t trap heat in, but the coolness they retain can be too great for some sleepers, or for some environments. For example, if you’re in Montana or North Dakota, latex mattresses often won’t allow you to stay as warm as you need to for a full night’s rest.
Making The Best Choice Between Mattresses
Ultimately, you want to try out mattresses to determine which are going to most effectively match your needs. Not everyone, especially in the midst of the pandemic plaguing the world presently, has the option or ability to “test run” mattresses. Sometimes you’ll need to look into options providing professional exposition like resources from known sleep professionals.
Such articles compare and contrast existing mattresses. Different professionals have different opinions informed by different facts. For example, the Sleep Doctor article in the underlined link points out the pros and cons of many different mattresses, and especially for side sleepers, offers some pointers toward the acquisition of the best possible option.
Weighing Your Options
That said, since everyone is different in terms of age, weight, sleeping proclivities, and geographical location, you may want to explore a few different resources in this regard for best results. One thing you shouldn’t do is simply choose a mattress to get the chore out of the way.
You need a routine, and a mattress which supports that routine by providing you rest requisite to subsequent daily needs. The good news is, more people sleep on their sides regularly than don’t; so there are definitely options out there.
