Owww...

I really want to like this mattress, especially considering the small fortune I paid for it. Prior to purchasing this mattress I was sleeping on a pillow top with a huge divot in the middle - I have been having back problems for a year or so - lower back/hips and upper back between the shoulder blades. After the first night sleeping on it I woke up with agony in my lower back - really bad - way worse than my normal lower back pain. I figured I needed some time to get used to it. I went camping that next day and slept on an air mattress for a few nights and my back felt better!! I returned home and slept on it again and the lower back agony was gone. However, just laying on the mattress prior to sleeping it was uncomfortable in exactly the way David R. below described. Felt like my hips were sinking in but while on my back I would get twinges of pain in my lower back - admittedly - the pain is in the area where I have pain anyways, prior to purchasing this mattress. However, also I would get a very uncomfortable feeling in my mid/upper back between my shoulder blades... it felt like the pain was very much on the surface and could be reproduced by like hunching my shoulders forward and thereby stretching that area of my back. I have been sleeping on it for nearly two months now and when going to bed I still feel uncomfortable and while I'm not waking up with as much lower back pain as originally, I still get some significant pain in the middle back area as described. I have contacted the store where I got it regarding their 60-day comfort policy but at the time I purchased it I believe they may have neglected to tell me that I had to buy a protector from them - I bought my own and it has been on the mattress since the moment it was delivered (if I remember correctly - I still need to check the invoice because I may actually have bought it from them after all and I'm simply thinking of the pillow protectors I bought) - also, as expected I have to get something equal in value or pay the difference. The issue is that I paid a lot for this mattress and for the amount paid I feel like I should be in heaven sleeping on it but that is not currently the case. There is still the possibility that this discomfort is more due to my original back issues than the mattress itself... but it's unfortunate that the mattress is not helping with them since thats part of the reason I decided to get a new mattress to begin with. The guy at the store suggested I try to "switch" the core to the firmer side - I will probably look into the details of this but I am running out of time on my 60-day policy. I'm putting recommendation yes simply becuase it does seem like a veyr high quality mattress and it's probably more my personal experience that this is not working out than the quality of the mattress.