Bad start with new latex mattress

[phoenix]

Hi jjramsey,

Also, last time, you said that the shoulder blade pain could indicate a hunched position, but I’m more hunched with the pillow partly tucked under my shoulders. Shoulder blade pain seems to happen the more straight my spine is.

As I mentioned I can only guess based on the information that I have available and without a reference point of a mattress that works well for you but IMO the odds would be higher that it’s too soft than too firm.

As you can see in the “symptoms” post I linked (post #2 here) … hunched could mean side to side where your shoulders are pushed forward while the center of your body sinks in more deeply (what I called slouched in the post) or it could be head to foot if your head is pushed forward by a pillow that is too thick (which I called hunched). In other words I would guess that it would be more of a posture and alignment issue than a pressure issue.

(FWIW, the specs of the “Elegance” and “Beautiful” mattresses indicate that they are not quite the same. Both are 12" thick, but the “Beautiful” purports to have two 3" inch comfort layers, each apparently with a different softness, over a 6" support, while the “Elegance” is supposed to have one 5" comfort layer over 6" of support over a 1" “stabilization base.” I’m not sure how the old “Talalay SS” and “Talalay S” used to describe the layers of the “Elegance” mattress translate into whatever marketing terms that Pure Latex Bliss now uses for their “Beautiful” mattress, let alone how they translate into ILDs.)

I believe that these are old specs and that their specs are now the same as the Beautiful (you can see the current PLB specs listed here). Either way though they are both very soft mattresses.

Phoenix