Choosing a mattress?

Hello all!

My husband and I (22 and 23) are on the hunt for a new mattress. We have been using my husband’s grandparents’ old mattress (a Sealy Posturepedic California King - firm) for about 4 years now.

For some background information, I do have issues with my posture (kyphosis/scoliosis) which does cause me back pain at times. I also wake up with shoulder/neck pain frequently from sleeping on my side/arm/shoulder.

My husband has no back issues, but does often sleep with his legs bent/raised in the bed (I know, strange, lol). He is a back sleeper and I am a side sleeper. We both have been to lay on a few mattresses, and we find we like a softer top mattress (not like the current mattress we have which is firm).

We have had a goose down-feather pillow mattress topper before, which we really enjoyed for a couple of years before our cat decided to pee on it. :frowning: Since then, we have just been using the Sealy posturepedic mattress on its own, and we both have issues with sleeping on it. We both feel it is too firm and not contouring to our bodies like we would want.

Another note - we both run hot at night, and sleep with a box fan because of this. We also keep the thermostat low (69 degrees Fahrenheit - 20.6 Celsius) at night.

If anyone has any mattress suggestions for us - they would be greatly appreciated! I have been looking into the mattresses with coils specifically, as I have read they hold up better over a long period of time.

Edit: We are located in Alabama, USA

Hello hallew02 and thanks for the inquiry! You might want to consider the 10" organic mattress from Sleep EZ - Organic Latex Mattress | Shop for 100% Natural Latex Mattresses - SleepEZ. Just FYI, most coil hybrids last around 10 years, whereas an all-latex mattress normally lasts 15-20 years or longer.

The organic and natural mattresses (the Select Sleep mattresses) are our flagship products. They’re fully customizable, meaning you can order the mattress to be as soft or as firm as you’d like. They’re also fully adjustable, meaning you can change the softness, firmness, back support, pressure relief, etc. AFTER you get the mattress in your home. To be more specific, the 10” is our most popular, and these mattresses normally go out with three 3" layers of different firmnesses - normally the softest layer (or the cushion & contour layer) is on top and the supportive layers are on the bottom. This helps ensure our customers get the right balance of contour for their hips and shoulders but also support for their lower back. If you start with a certain setup and find that it’s too soft, you can unzip the cover and rearrange the layers to get a firmer feel out of the mattress, or you can exchange a layer to make it softer. Additionally, latex mattresses typically last 20 years. If, in 5 or 10 or 15 years you decide you want a softer or firmer mattress you would only have to buy a new layer instead of an entirely new mattress. Lastly, if the mattress starts to break down in 15 – 20 years, it’s normally the top layer that breaks down first, and at that point you can likely just buy a new top layer of latex instead of a whole new mattress and get an additional 8-10 years out of the mattress.

Furthermore, queen, king, and cal king mattresses are available with what we call “split layers,” which means you can have us cut the layers down the middle (from head to foot) so that you can have a different feel / firmness on your side versus your partner’s side, and you can adjust each side independently over the 20 year lifetime of the mattress. About 95% of our mattresses go out with all split layers from top to bottom, and we get zero complaints on being able to feel the split and we get zero complaints about the layers shifting or anything like that, even if you sleep right on the middle of the mattress.

If you’re wondering how to pick the layers for this mattress, you can go to the natural or organic mattress page, click the green button that says “Build Your Mattress Now,” then click the gray oval that says “Personalized,” and you’ll be able to enter your information. The website will then make a personalized recommendation based on your information (the layers in the mattress diagram will reflect the recommendation after you click the “Apply” button. Please note that our initial recommendations have a 90% success rate (we only have a 10% layer exchange rate) so there’s a 90% chance that the recommendation turns out to be your perfect setup!

Although it’s not likely that you’ll need to rearrange layers or exchange layers, you certainly have the option to adjust the mattress according to you and your partner’s specific needs and preferences, both in the short-term and long-term. We have a 90 day exchange and return period, so you can exchange a layer within the first 90 days for a flat-rate $30 fee for the first exchange and the full cost of shipping for any subsequent exchanges. We will ship your layers first, and we will ship them with extra plastic that you can use to package your current layers, and we will ship it with a pre-paid Fed Ex return label. Also, if you will please call us when you are ready to ship your layers back we will schedule a free Fed Ex pick up for you. You will have 30 days after its arrival to return a layer of your choosing, so you’ll have plenty of time to try a few different combinations with the layers you have and the layer we will be sending you so that you can get your comfort and support levels just right.

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Thank you for the information! I will definitely take a look!