Gel Memory Foam Toppers

[phoenix]

Hi smmimp14,

The foundation is about 1 year old, is a Simmons Beautyrest Titanium, all I see is metal but believe the foundation to be in like new condition.

I’m guessing that you may have a Triton foundation (Simmons doesn’t make a “titanium” foundation).

The only way to know what effect your foundation may be having is to use your mattress on the floor to eliminate the possibility that some of what you are experiencing is coming from the foundation.

The mattress was made by a local mattress manufacturer but has a base coli system of some sort and then another layer of individual wrapped small coils, 10000 of them I believe, then has 1" of gel memory foam inside the mattress and the mattress cover is 3/4 padding. The mattress also is about one year old. There are no worn impressions on the mattress.

Even if your mattress doesn’t have any visible impressions it may be too soft for you (or it could have “virtual” impressions which are soft spots in the mattress that aren’t visible) but based on the limited information you provided about your mattress I would still guess that your toppers in combination with the softer layers and components in your mattress (the gel memory foam, the quilting layers, and the microcoils and possibly the base coils as well) are probably too soft for you because it would be very unlikely that 5" of memory foam toppers in combination with the softer layers in your mattress would be too firm for almost anyone. If this is the case then some of the suggestions in post #4 here may be helpful.

The first step though would be to describe the specific symptoms that you are experiencing when you sleep on your mattress by itself (without a topper). There is also more about the more common symptoms that people may experience on a mattress and some of the most likely reasons for them in post #2 here which may also be helpful with the detective work and/or trial and error that may be involved in trying to identify the type of changes that may help with the specific symptoms you are experiencing.

Phoenix