Latex Topper-Ultimate Dreams?

system · April 25, 2013, 5:48pm

Phoenix:

Hi mom2meredeth,

A medium firm comfort layer in the range of 29 - 31 ILD would be on the firm side for most people of your body type so I can understand that you are having some shoulder pain.

The risk of adding a topper is that the softer and thicker it is … the further away from the support layers you will be and this can increase the risk of exchanging a pressure relief issue for an alignment issue (your pelvic girdle could sink down too far and tilt causing your spine to be out of its natural alignment). Because of this … it’s usually best to use a topper that is “just enough” in terms of thickness and softness so that the risk to your alignment is minimized.

While only your own personal experience on a mattress/topper combination can know for certain how well it works … there are some topper guidelines in post #2 here (and the posts it links to) that may be helpful in choosing the best thickness and softness.

I would probably lean more towards 2" just to reduce the alignment risk

Phoenix

are you saing that 29-31 is the ILD of the top layer of her mattress ?