Hello, I have been pouring through the avalible info on this site for the last couple days and feel educated enough to make a post.
My wife is 5â and 120 lbs, i am 5â11 240 lbs, i have been sleeping a lot on my back for a couple years, but historically prefer to sleep on my side and stomach, i do change during the night in many cases. My wife is more of a back and side sleeper alternating during the night.
I ordered a mattress a few months ago from Brooklyn Bedding, the Brooklyn Signature, in medium firmness. At that time I had been enduring a painful memory foam mattress for almost 2 years. Previously I had only had innerspring and pillow top innerspring mattresses which were great for me.
I was really looking forward to waking up feeling normal, but unfortunately the medium firm signature did not do the trick. I felt different, in the morning, than with the memory foam, but I still had to do a stretching exercise in the evening to be able to function comfortably the next day. Before the stretches, i was in constant upper and lower back pain throughout the day, and extreme stiffness first thing, i felt like an 80 year old at 30. While it wasnt that bad with the signature, it wasnât good either. From what ive read here and elsewhere, i think the memory foam was probobly to low density (it was a very cheap bed in a box) and wasnt giving me the support or pressure relief i needed. The medium firm signature i intially assumed wasnt firm enough so i switched to the Brooklyn Signature firm.
After about 4 weeks of the firm, I was on the fence, I wouldnât say I felt exactly the same way as I did with the memory foam (which was deep stiffness and lower back and shoulder pain) or the medium firm mattress, but I am still experiencing lower back pain and some morning stiffness. So I tried adding a memory foam topper we had from a previous mattress. (I wonder about that memory foam too being a cheap walmart topper) Ive been testing that for about a week.
While in some ways this was more comfortable to lay on going to bed, It didnât resolve the back troubles, and I think either the mattress or topper is causing a new soreness in my left hip and knee. My wife also reported to me that while the medium firm was better for her than the memory foam, the firm was less comfortable without the topper. But with the topper she has been having some other issue.
So the last couple of nights I have gone back to my baseline test mattress, which is a standard innerspring in my guest bedroom. And when I go to sleep on it, I donât have to do any stretches the night before, and I wake up feeling almost 100% I believe if i slept on it for a week or so i would be back to normal. My knee and hip also seem not to be bothering me as much.
I am at a bit of a loss as to what the solution is. Having done extensive research, I feel like an innerspring with a pillow top is probably what I should try next, and I have slept on one of those in the past without issues.
However, as I do not see that BB offer that type of mattress, I wanted to know if one of their other options may be a good option for me to try. I have looked at the Bowry (i donât think i should even consider an all foam at this point) and Bowry hybrid, and I donât think thatâs going to be an improvement on the signature hybrid.
So it seems Iâm comparing the Bloom - Spartan - Aurora Hybrids. Which (if any) would you suggest I try next, and in what level of firmness? It is my understanding that support and firmness are not the same thing, and as a firmer mattress hasnât solved the problem, perhaps a more supportive mattress in a medium firmness would be advisable? From the research I have done, the coils on the aurora/spartan are 8", 16 gauge and there are more of them than the signature, which isnât necessarily better, but combined with the denser and different foams, may provide better support and comfort, especially with me being a heavier person.
I posed this same question to BB and am awaiting their response, but im curious what you expert folks think. Thank you for your time!
(I would have made this its own post, but i didnt seem to have that option.)
Follow up, BB got back to me with a 1 sentance reply âcheck out our titanâ which appears to be on another website, but based on the description, is nearly identical to my existing BB signature⌠not happy.
They say the mattress design is totally different, the coil system, the titan uses 13G coils instead of the 6G coils the signature uses, which in turn will offer more support.
Does that sound like it would make that much difference?
! Thanks for your kind words about the site and yes, you can totally start a new topic at the âAsk An Expertâ pagehere. Choose one of the Trusted Members from the list of âGeneral Mattress Questionsâ and on the following page, select the âNew Topicâ/ green button on the left. You can also use the forumâs âsearchâ and enter âlatex mattressâ for example to find existing threads of interest. Glad you asked, âcreating a New Topicâ is often a question from new users.