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My husband & I purchased a Brooklyn Bedding #bestmattressever back in October (it is a version no longer available with 3 layers of memory foam). Our old mattress was a double-sided pillowtop from Denver Mattress that we bought way back in 2002 - it had seen better days and my husband’s back was starting to hurt all the time. My husband adamantly insisted on purchasing the “soft” version, vs the medium or hard, though I wondered if medium was probably wiser. He is primarily a back sleeper, I sleep exclusively on my side. We are both overweight - he is 210lbs, I am 250lbs.
The new mattress came and it was beautiful and comfortable and neither of us had any complaints initially. But after a week, the hip I sleep on started to become very tender. I visited some family for a few days and the pain went away but as soon as I came back and slept on the new mattress, it came back again. But we wanted to give the mattress a fair trial so we slept on it until mid-December and I contacted Brooklyn Bedding to return it. They offered a cooling gel-infused memory foam topper and an extension on the trial-period so we accepted. And for the past two months we’ve been sleeping with that on top of the mattress. My hip is mostly better, just the occasional twinge, but my elbow of all things has begun hurting - the one on the side I sleep on. And my husband’s back still aches slightly. Plus I feel like we are sleeping warmer than we did on our our pillowtop.
So I contacted Brooklyn Bedding again. They no longer carry the same mattress we have and asked if we’d be willing to try the new Signature Hybrid which is two layers of foam on top of 6" coils. Supposedly it sleeps cooler due to the coils. And they suggested we stick with the “soft” option saying it “will be softer than your current mattress with the topper due to the pocketed coils. Since the topper still didn’t make the mattress soft enough, I would definitely encourage going with the soft comfort level to get you that added pressure point relief.”
I just want to confirm we are heading down the right route? Is staying soft wise or should we push for medium? (My husband is still thinking soft is best.) And I just don’t want my elbow and hip pressure points hurting.