Mattress Advice For A Complicated Body

[phoenix]

Hi Oona,

Yes, I had read and, in several instances, re-read many of the links you responded with. I had hoped for a response that would be more personalized to the content of my OP, since I’d already read the general “works for most people” guidelines.

I’m not sure what you were expecting or how my reply could have possibly been more “personalized” to the content of your post than it was and as far as I can see I don’t think I missed replying to any of your comments or questions with information that I thought would help you. Am I missing something?

I went to The Original Mattress Factory. They only make one latex bed, a two sided blended Talalay with a polyfoam core. The salesman claimed there were no measurements for the densities of foam. So, that’s out.

There is more about the OMF Serenity Latex in post #4 here and post #8 here and the posts they link to. They use high quality materials and there are no weak links in the mattress.

Sleep Tite hasn’t responded to my email.

I would try calling them unless your email has a question that only needs a single sentence reply (see post #4 here)

Design Sleep, which seems the nicest of the offerings, is Talalay only and 7 zoned at that; I don’t think my height and unusual weight distribution lends itself to one-size-fits-all zoning. It’s also a 3-3.5 hour roundtrip drive.

The only way to know this would be based on your own personal testing. They are also good quality mattresses that would be well worth testing IMO if the round trip isn’t too far for you.

Snuggies stocks Jamison Talalay. This might be worth checking out just to be able to check out something that is actually made of only latex, assuming they actually have one of those in stock.

I would call them first to make sure they have all latex mattresses on their floor.

So, it’s not seeming as though there is any way to test rest what I’m looking for, Organic Dunlop, much less variations on that theme. It, frankly, seems a little difficult to believe that there are zero options beyond blindly ordering something over the internet, without even the semblance of comparison.

If you are looking only for organic Dunlop latex then this isn’t a particularly common material and there are many areas of the country where there wouldn’t be any organic Dunlop mattresses available and the only option would be an online purchase unless other types and blends of latex were acceptable to you. There is more about the different types and blends of latex in post #6 here that may help you decide whether other types and blends or latex that are more commonly available are acceptable to you.

Phoenix