and by headaches…I don’t mean problems. I mean headaches.
So I’ve been getting headaches when we’re over at The Love Nest. Lots of them. We even got a carbon monoxide detector to see if that was it.
Well, remember that Sleep Number Bed that I was so excited about? Well, it appears that it’s giving me headaches. Horrible ones. It just has this strong chemical/plastic smell to it.
So I took it apart. Put the egg crate foam part of it out on the balcony to air out.
Unzipped the whole thing and spread it all out. Yes, that’s a fan in the window…blowing OUT the window trying to suck out the smell.
Then I washed all the bedding. The mattress pad…
Yes, well, you can’t tell very well from this photo, but the mattress pad melted! So, how special. I look at the care tag (you know, after I already cared for it.) “Use NO HEAT when drying the mattress pad.” As if. 
I’m quite irritated at this bed right now. I’m going to put the whole darn thing back together and see how it sleeps tonights. If I’m still getting headaches from it, I might take a machete to it and put it (me) out of it’s (my) misery. 
So, maybe I wake up with less body aches with this bed…but my headaches are killing me. Wish me luck that this airing out solves the problem.
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I wonder if Fabreeze would work????????? I don’t know how it works with a chemical like smell….
I love the name of your blog especially since I’ve actually had peach schnaps on mine. Yeah, killed that laptop!
Good information because I have been very inquisitive about the Sleep number bed…anything that smells funky gives me a headache. Have you contacted the manufacturer????
Hope all that maneuvering solved your headaches. Who would have thought a bed could give you headaches!
That stinks (literally). I hope all of your airing out work helps. It is really horrible to wake up with a headache.
Oh wow. I would be contacting the manufacturer, as well.
Well I do hope the airing out works for you, that has got to bad. If not take that axe to it.
My brother had this same problem with one of those foam pillow toppers on his bed. He couldn’t get over the smell of it.
Good luck with the airing out! That sounds terrible.
How did you sleep last night? Did you get anymore headaches?
We are on our 2nd Sleep Number and are still not satisfied! That odor you are talking about is horrible. I febreezed our first one and had it outside numerous days and it still smelled. Mailed that one back, they replaced the parts and we aired up the bladders and it all stinks again. Hubby called Cust Serv today, it is past the time to return it, they are going to mail new bladders. That won’t really help because all of the other pieces stink!!!!
Very Frustrated!!!
having same problem with my sleep number bed. Funny but I have a bed in Florida I bought two years ago and it doesnt have that odor, but this one stinks and can’t get rid of it. cust serv says roll it up and air it out. didnt help.