All i know about purple is some guy supposedly got into a huge legal battle because they made a few comments questioning the product.

So yeah, theres that.

yeah i heard that, he was making claims that their mattress was covered in a powder like chemical - but it's a food safe powder that's there to keep the gridding from fusing together in long term storage . He claimed it could cause cancer or something with no proof, they lost because purple was able to prove without a doubt that it was a "patent pending food grade pounder".

obviously mad libbing because i don't remember it word for word.

its... not quite that simple.
The TL:DR was that the reviewer is/was at some point staff of a competitor and thats what the legal battle was about. The reviewer never quite claimed the mattress caused any ill effects, more so concerned about it and was asking questions with no response but the legal hit.
It IS food safe however food safe doesn't necessarily mean safe to breath in, as you might know with some of the old vaping controversies.
I don't think theres any proof for or against the issue, stuff like that could be.... very long term, or just not happen at all.

I am... curious about non-traditional mattresses like the casper but im still more likely to go with a more traditional spring mattress, just because its what im familiar with and know it works.

ah- yeah that sounds way more right hahaaa - i've been up for 24+ hours- forgive me ///

and yeah that's fair, just looking around price wise alone the "online mattresses" look to be a better bang for your buck. $1100 vs $3000 is a big difference LMAO But when it comes down to it tho this is something that's massively affecting my health so the price isn't my worry - I just dont wanna make another 7 year long mistake like our current one.

Honestly... you can never really know. I mean, my matress was a couple hundred dollars and its just fine, but it varies person to person i guess. The problem is you really need to TRY a matress before you buy it, but you really can't know how it will wear down over the years too. The one i have WAS fairly hard to start with, but it now is much softer.

I always err on the side of getting firmer than i think i need because of that.

Look at trial // return policies and how hard they would be to return, it would be terrible to invest so much money to have something you dont end up liking.

I think   Aemi mentioned having a purple mattress. Might wanna ask her.

Hubby and I bought this one back for tax season. I've never had a fancy Tempurpedic mattress so I can't directly compare, but it's hands down the best mattress I've ever slept on, and I had a pretty high end one in my bedroom back home. They have a few other models that are slightly higher end too, so you might look at those. But we've had this model for like six months now and it's still just as nice as it was day one, and I don't even get woken up by my husband's sleep-flailing unless he actually hits me on accident.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Q7EPSHI/

We wanna stay away from memory foam in general or else i'd look into it more. Every memory mattress we've slept on , including the "amazing" one we currently has made us wake up more exhausted than when we went to bed. :<

Yeah, I've heard memory foam isn't for everyone! Really, if you wanna stay away from memory foam then I really do suggest just going to a local store and trying a few out. Labor and Memorial day are both huge sale times for mattress stores for whatever reason, so you might be able to get a good deal pretty soon.

My parents have one its pretty dope. Its super thin compared to a normal mattress. They're extremely happy with it.

Check your notes lady <3 <3

I don't have a purple, didn't know it existed until just after I purchased my current mattress :p

I have a Casper and I've enjoyed it quite a bit. The only reason why I've been sleeping poorly as of late is from just how stinkin' hot it is here. It was a vast improvement over my previous spring mattress that I've had for about 11 years, I was tossing and turning every night with it. I wish I could say if it was better than a tempurpedic, but I've never gotten the chance to try one, though they do let you try it for a few months and return it if you don't like it.

I hope that helps, even if just a little ^.^

Mattress salesbird here,

My personal suggestion, and what I use myself, is a nice Stearns & Foster. They make both traditional mattresses as well as hybrids, which is the halfway point between us all foam mattress like a TempurPedic and a all traditional spring coil mattress. So you get a lot of the benefits of a memory foam mattress but you sleep a little bit more like a traditional. If your problems from the temporary pressure or with just overall Comfort on it, you might even want to steer completely away from foam. Some people just don't sleep well on foam, in that case a traditional spring coil sound mattress might work best for you.

If you have a TempurPedic now, I assume that you aren't to restricted on price point. A Stearns & Foster is still going to be less expensive than a TempurPedic would nine times out of ten, but if you're looking for something a little more inexpensive restonic is an excellent company although they don't have as much coverage as Stearns or Tempur-Pedic do. You might just have to check with the restonic website to see who your local retailer is for them.

I don't recommend the purple mattress, as it's made with some questionable additives that they use to keep it from getting moist and falling apart. We see a lot of people that come in here after having a purple for not too long and needing to replace it with something else. On top of that, there's no physical locations where you can try out a purple mattress, which I find to be the most important thing in mattress shopping is actually getting to lay down on it.

I sleep on a ten+ year old mattress, my couch or a travel cot...

I don't have one, but I'm planning on picking one up in the "soonish" time frame. Only thing that sucks is shipping to Canada, which makes it a lot more expensive than some of the other companies out there (like Leesa).

Sleepopolis has some nice breakdowns and comparisons of the various online mattresses, and also has videos to go with most of the written reviews too.