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That reviewer told me my sleeping pad was the problem, not my back pain
I did a 4 day loop in the Smokies last October and woke up sore every morning, blamed the ground and my age. A guy in the REI parking lot in Knoxville said my 2 inch foam pad was too thin for side sleeping and made me try his 3.5 inch inflatable. Now I sleep flat and my hips don't ache, has anyone else switched pads and felt that big of a difference?
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grace5654d agoTop Commenter
āblamed the ground and my ageā hit me hard because I did the exact opposite. I switched FROM a fancy inflatable TO a thick foam pad last spring and my back felt worse, not better. Turns out the inflatable was letting me sink too much and my spine was curving weird. I only figured it out when my buddy let me camp on his crappy Walmart pad one night and I woke up feeling like a new person. So yeah, pad thickness and firmness is a total game changer, but itās not always about going inflatable. Iāve got a buddy who swears by stacking two thin foam pads, itās like a weird science experiment but he sleeps like a baby.
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