high BP / arrhythmia from new memory foam mattress

Did it come with a leaflet and does it say how long you are meant to air it for? The reason I mention this is I've seen mattress that say to air for a set amount of time.

What was it wrapped in?

Either way this is really concerning, I am glad you are OK and that you will be on the guest bed.

There was nothing in the box. This is what the website's FAQ's say in response to the question "How long does it take for my mattress to air out?"

"For best results, we recommend allowing your mattress to sit between 3 to 5 hours before laying on it. Keep in mind the natural odor in your mattress may take up to 24 hours after unpacking to entirely dissipate."

There's nothing there, obviously, about possible adverse consequences from inhaling that "natural odor."

I'm slowly coming back to normal, four hours after the above post. Blood pressure down, HR down. But I'm spooked. We've got the bedroom door closed, a window open, and a fan blowing across the upper surface. When I put my nose right down against it, I smelled precisely the sort of volatile chemical smell that could have created this problem if one slept close to it all night. Not strong, but there.

It's the guest room for me tonight. Assuming that I'm okay tomorrow and have a normal run, I may sleep on the new bed tomorrow night. If I wake up and have a version of the same syndrome--well, there's your answer.

I may be more sensitive than some. If my wife and I are driving somewhere and she's painting her nails in the passenger seat, I react very quickly to whatever solvent that is.

Yeah, I can imagine. This is really scary. And honestly... why do they sell products that are dangerous to touch or be near after opening? The same applies to some clothes.

Did you sleep differently on it as well?

If it is from what you think it is (which it sounds like it is) I would imagine it would dissipate quickly, so hopefully it will be OK for you soon and I am glad you have the window open, but... IDK... can you get a refund? The problem is I would imagine the company will imply you are making it up or it is coincidental. Does it have any rips in it or obvious problems?

bro, I'd go see a doc immediately. After that, I'd call the company and tell them my lawyer would be calling soon.

I bought a 2" "topper", and didn't like the smell or how hot I got sleeping on it. Could be a combo. I put mine in the basement and will use it under a sleeping bag or something.

Best thing you can do is try sleeping somewhere else and see if you get back to normal.

Followup the next day.

I slept in the guest bedroom. I got decent sleep, but nothing special. My HR this morning was a little elevated; it wouldn't settle into the mid50s. My BP was fine: 122/85, which is a low systolic for me.

My run, a 3-mile jog, was great. My HR was actually a bit low vs. pace.

So: the news is good. We will air out the mattress all day with a fan blowing across the top, as we did yesterday, and I will spend a second night in the guest bedroom. If things continue normal during my run tomorrow, I will sleep on the new bed tomorrow night--and will closely monitor how I feel on the morning after.

Yesterday was scary. I do believe that I was poisoned by the bed: by sleeping in close proximity, all night, to an upper layer that still contained unevaporated volatile compounds. I've put it all on the record here so that the next person who experiences something like this and who runs a Google search will find this.

Also, and blessedly: the arrhythmia is gone. I felt that it was still there early this morning, at least a little. But it's gone now.

You have had an issue in the past that was caused by lack of sleep. Maybe the problem is completely unrelated to the mattress.

Sounds to me like when people blame shoes for their injuries. It's possible it could be the shoes, but more likely it's something else.

Glad you're feeling better. Hope it stays away.

In the past, when arrhythmia showed up, it was never accompanied by high blood pressure. That was new--and a signal, I think, that something other than lack of sleep caused this.

Also, in the past, arrhythmia didn't just surge into view for 36 hours, then disappear. That's what has happened.

I agree that it's always a good idea not to jump to conclusions, but rather to carefully observe, allow the fact pattern to fully manifest, and test several hypotheses. One of my hypotheses was exactly what you've suggested. But in the past, arrhythmia showed up only after a sustained period where I wasn't getting good sleep. And once it manifested, it didn't recede virtually overnight.

I still think the bed did it.

Another followup. Last night, after two days in the guest bedroom, during which time we had a fan running across the top of the new mattress all day, both days, I slept on the thing again.

This morning, my heart rate was normal and there was no arrhythmia. BUT: from the moment I got out of bed, I felt slightly spacy. At first I tried to ignore it. But it refused to go away. It was there at 7:30 AM when I had a dental followup. It was there at 8 AM when I walked fast for 10 minutes and then jogged a very slow 3 miles. It was there when I got back home.

The best analogy would be a slight hangover. But I don't have a hangover.

It's the mattress continuing to poison me in a low-level way. There's just no question in my mind.

So I'll head back to the guest bedroom tonight, and we're fanning the mattress again, all day, with the windows open wide.

Thanks, Brooklyn Bedding! It's a great mattress, but it's got a small volatile chemicals problem. We're working on it, though, and I'm confident that after a total of three or four days' worth of aggressive fan-work, all of the off-gassing will be gone.

Can you put it on the roof of your car and take it for a trip?

Personally think you should get rid of it now but airing it outside might be better than fanning (no matter how aggressive it may be).

I'm close to agreeing with you. I was feeling pretty good this afternoon, so I put my face smack up against the mattress surface inhaled deeply two or three times. F*ck if I didnt start to feel exactly the same weird slightly woozy way I felt this morning! The f*king mattress is like sniffing glue! This can't be good.

I need to put some keywords in this thread so that it comes up when some other sucker makes a search.

memory foam mattress

toxic

VOC

volatile organic compounds

off-gassing

out-gassing

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/what-is-off-gassing

I'm gonna go with: coincidence. I'm rather confident your new mattress is not poisoning you.

It is better to choose an ordinary mattress.

And how do you choose a good one?

PenelopeEllison wrote:

In any furniture store you will be offered dozens of mattresses for every taste and wallet. Spring mattresses can be with dependent and independent springs. In the first case, the springs are intertwined with each other in a certain way, while in the second case each spring is in a separate fabric "cup". Mattresses with independent blocks are more comfortable because the springs, isolated from each other, better adjust to the shape of the body. 256 springs per square meter is the standard for most mattresses of this type. This number of springs makes the mattress very comfortable. I got myself a good mattress by Mattress Reviews

https://bedselection.co.uk/

What in tarnation? This alley-oop advertisement stuff is out of control!!

I don’t think it’s going out a limb to say the bed has nothing to do with it. Medical issues pop up randomly during our lives. There’s no causal connection between the bed and heart arrhythmia or high BP. It reminds me of an old finance study that find sunspots can predict stock market prices.