Goldilocks searching for a new mattres

[phoenix]

Hi dragons4Mama,

We have, actually, tried the Queen-sized wool topper crosswise on the king futon – spaced to cushion shoulders – so the wool topper covered all but the upper pillow area & lower feet areas. It helped, but not I think enough. (Had to take it off to flip or turn the futon & never put the wool topper back on.)

Wool tends to be firmer than foam toppers and provides more "point specific"pressure relief under the main pressure points but it tends to be firmer and less pressure relieving (and more costly) than a foam topper (latex, memory foam, or polyfoam). There is more about wool toppers in post #8 here and the posts it links to.

I’m afraid that with only 3" of latex topper, I’d sink down through the topper and “bottom out” on the futon. I really think it would be like sleeping on a topper on top of well-padded plush carpeting.

In the right thickess and firmness it would provide a significant improvement in pressure relief (when my kids come over with their significant others they often sleep on a 3" latex topper on the floor and sleep fine although of course it’s not quite as comfortable as a mattress). While only you can decide if it’s worth trying or whether you feel “safer” just buying a new mattress … if you buy a topper with a good exchange or return policy it can lower the risk of trying the topper and finding out it doesn’t work out as well as you hoped for.

Perhaps when you go to Spindle it may be worth trying one of their latex layers on a very firm surface to see how it feels for you.

Phoenix