Flexus Comfort Latex Mattress - Experiences and Ongoing Feedback

[phoenix]

Hi Artsdoc,

I switched your post to a new topic of its own so your questions and my replies wouldn’t end up taking the original topic in a different direction.

I had a bit of a disagreement with my sleeping partner: firm versus medium. Firm won out (and it wasn’t my choice). The first several nights felt as if we were sleeping on a conrete ledge. I was sore, mostly in the lower back. After a couple of weeks, I felt I was run over by a truck and opted for a 4" wool topper (at a family-run place in Wisconsin mentioned here). It felt far better immediately and it’s a surprisingly substantial topper. However, I have to really shake it and flip it every week, no doubt about that. It’s behaving as promised in that you do wind up with a custom-made indentation where you sleep, but I’m not sure this is going to work out either.

The impressions will tend to even out to some degree over time if you make a point of sleeping on different parts of the topper but a wool topper won’t have the same “feel” as a softer latex topper (see post #8 here and the posts it links to for more about wool toppers). For those that prefer the feel of sleeping on a thicker layer of wool nothing else will do but of course each person will have their own preferences about how different materials “feel” and perform and which materials they prefer to sleep on. Natural fibers like wool are certainly different (and generally feel firmer) than softer latex toppers.

[quote]Flexus Comfort also offers latex toppers, and I was thinking of talking it over with Henry or James. I’ve tried hastening the break-in process of the mattress by walking on it, although admittedly just started doing that. It’s been two months now so I’m not sure it’s going to soften much more. Whether or not a softer Talalay topper might help isn’t exactly clear to me.

Any thoughts?[/quote]

There are some suggestions in post #2 here that may be helpful (including a link to some topper guidelines that can help you choose a topper if you do decide to go in that direction) but after two months it’s quite likely that you are past the normal break in and adjustment period and if the other “non mattress” suggestions aren’t enough then it would certainly be worthwhile talking with Henry or James about either exchanging a layer in your mattress or adding a softer topper to your sleeping system. They are certainly knowledgeable and experienced with helping their customers with these types of issues and would be able to give you good guidance about the options they have available that would help you customize the mattress so that it’s a better match for you in terms of PPP (Posture and alignment, Pressure relief, and Personal preferences).

Now that you are more familiar with how your original choices work for you in terms of PPP in “real life” and since you are local to them you are in a good position to be able to test any new layer combinations or a topper you are considering in person and assess whether they would be a better “match” for you than the layers that you chose originally.

Phoenix