DHP Modern Metal Canopy Platform Bed

So I've owned this bed frame for over a year now, and I finally feel comfortable posting my review on it. I loved it at first, but now I'm absolutely sick of it. There are some nights that I dread the very idea of having to go to bed. This thing is louder than my housemate and her new girlfriend. It squeaks with such intensity, that I often wonder if it's haunted by the souls of thousands of dead mice. It's so LOUD. And the annoying thing is that we cannot pinpoint where the squeaks come from. The first couple of months were fine, no squeaks, no issues. The top of the headboard banged against the wall sometimes, but a couple of tiny pillows fixed that. About three months in, we noticed a little squeak. My boyfriend and I laughed nervously, and agreed that squeaks were going to happen. It's metal, after all! And hey, three months is a long time to go without tightening any bolts! So we pulled the mattress off, tightened a few things, replaced the now-rotated mattress and settled back in. Good as new! We figured, "Hey, it's not so bad to have to do this every few months. No biggie!" It was a biggie. A very big biggie. A month or so passes and the squeaking starts up again. We carry through the rotations, tightening and oiling the joints. We couldn't figure out exactly what was squeaking, so we tried every path. We placed a thick scarf between the long center bar and the little thin bars that cross over it. That helped a bit. Pretty soon, every month or so we were going through the motions of "rotate the mattress, oil the joints, tighten the screws". It's frustrating, but we live with it. I've got student debt up to my ears, so I'm not going to be able to get another bed frame for a while. We toss around the idea of trying a box spring to maybe alleviate some of the pressure of the mattress, but before we can bring this idea to fruition, our ears were assaulted with "Bed-mageddon". We went to bed and slept barely a wink. I couldn't take a deep breath without the bed groaning in agony. Forget about rolling over! We went about our routine as usual when we got up, but this time I took it one step further. Painstakingly, I removed every single metal "slat" from the bed (roughly two dozen of them), and oiled the ends of every single one. Oh, it helped alright. For THREE days. I woke up last night from the second worst night of sleep I've gotten this month. I'm at my wits end. This frame is lovely, and when the bed is quiet, I adore it. But I can't take this kind of abuse from what's supposed to be my quiet, comfy place. There was no warranty or anything, and I can't find it in my heart to try to sell this frame on Craigslist and have it be someone else's nightmare. We've tried just about everything, but there doesn't seem to be any kind of semi-permanent solution. The positives of this bed absolutely do not outweigh the negatives. We're looking into a box spring, hoping that might alleviate some pressure on the bars, but if that fails, we'll just have to sleep on the box spring/mattress on the floor. I implore you, if you're looking to get a decent amount of sleep and want something that'll last you more than a few months, please find a better bed frame.