Latex Gold mattresses

[phoenix]

Hi Bedcomfort,

My husband’s complaints are a very sore lower back in all the combinations except the last that we got yesterday. Again, we’re in early stages but I’m optimistic.

That sounds promising. When you are trying to assess the types of changes that would have the best odds of success then identifying the actual changes in your sleeping experience and symptoms between each layering combination you try is much more important than just deciding whether it works or doesn’t work. It’s the changes that happen (whether something gets better or worse and if possible how much better or worse) when you try a different combination that can be the most useful “pointers”.

Trying out the combo in shop is very difficult unless you actually sleep on it at least one night . One can’t know from 5 minutes of testing in the shop.

If you are just testing a mattress for 5 minutes in the store then it certainly wouldn’t be a good way to predict how well you will sleep on it. On the other hand … while nothing has a 100% success rate … with a local purchase for the majority of people … careful testing using the guidelines in the tutorial (rather than just testing for the more subjective “comfort” of a mattress which often won’t predict how well you will sleep on a mattress or how it will “feel” when you sleep on it at home) along with some good guidance from a knowledgeable and experienced retailer or manufacturer will usually result in a mattress choice that is well inside a suitable comfort/support range and will generally be “close enough” so that if any fine tuning is necessary it would be relatively minor and involve different mattress pads, sheets, mattress protectors, or perhaps even a topper if a mattress is too firm (see post #4 here and post #10 here).

Densities - no clue. I’d asked at combo 2 and Don said he was trying to figure it out and didn’t mention anything after. At combo 3 Don said he knows - nothing was shared with me. Although I do remember at one point he mentioned the number 50 or 55 but I was clueless as to what it meant or which layer - I thought I should keep quiet as he didn’t like to be asked questions by me, it was making him agitated - what-was-I-reading.

Without knowing the density of each layer or at least some type of firmness rating such as a word rating for each layer (such as extra soft, soft, medium, firm, extra firm) there is very little I can do to help because I don’t have any reference points to work from. It would be helpful to call and ask about the firmness of each layer … at least the ones that you are currently using. In the worst case you could take a heavy object and measure how much it sinks in to each layer. The ones that it sinks in more would be softer and the ones that it sinks in less would be firmer)

Unfortunately without knowing firmness ratings and “matching” a set of “symptoms” with a specific layering combination the rest of the information in your post has very little meaning to me.

Once you have identified the firmness of each layer to the best of your ability then I would also suggest that you use a single post to describe only one layering combination with a title on top of the post for that combination (such the combo 1, combo 2 etc that you suggested) and describe all the symptoms you experienced with that specific layering combination underneath the description in the same post.

When you have described that combination and the symptoms that are (or were) associated with it then you can use another post to describe the next combination and the symptoms that are or were associated with that one making sure to include how your symptoms changed from the previous combination.

One combination and description per post may help keep the information to a manageable level that I can make some sense of.

Phoenix