My Luxi experience and hybrid mattress questions

[phoenix]

Hi JustPassingThru,

Thanks for taking the time to share such detailed and insightful comments and feedback about your Luxi Mattress … I appreciate it.

We’ve been sleeping on our Luxi for about 2 months now.
The first few nights were terrible. My back was killing me, and I was honestly ready to return the mattress.
However, I decided to stick it out for another week to see if things got any better. I also planned to try different firmness configurations to see if that was the issue.
As it turns out, I think my back was so used to that saggy, unsupportive pocket coil, that the different position the Luxi put me in was a shock to the system.
After about 4 or 5 nights of adjustment, all of my problems went away. I’m sleeping so much better than I did on my old mattress, and I rarely wake up in the middle of the night anymore. I wake up feeling well rested.

It’s also good to hear that you gave your mattress some time and as you discovered there will also be a break in and adjustment period for any new mattress or sleeping system as the mattress loses any of it’s “false firmness” and the cover stretches and loosens a little and the materials settle and your body gets used to a sleeping surface that is different from what it is used to (see post #3 here). This would typically be a few weeks but it can be shorter or longer depending on the specifics of the person and the mattress (higher density materials can take longer) and it can be surprising to many people how much their sleeping experience can change over the course of the first month or so.

My overheating issues also seem to have disappeared (so far anyway). That was one of my biggest concerns with going to a foam mattress, since I’d read that some types of foam sleep very hot.
The Luxi actually sleeps very cool. Much cooler than my pocket coil did.

Sleeping hot would be more common with a mattress where you are sleeping directly on thicker layers of memory foam than it would with either the the SBT polyfoam or the latex which is on either side of the Luxisleep top component because they would both be more breathable and temperature neutral than most memory foam.

I also find the edges of the mattress are not overly rigid compared to my old pocket coil. So if you tend to sleep very close to the edge of the bed (like I used to), you may not like this mattress.
I also notice it when sitting on the edge of the bed.
It’s not terrible the way it is right now, but it could use some improvement. Some sort of reinforcement around the edges would be nice.

Unlike many innerspring mattresses … most foam mattresses (latex foam, memory foam, or polyfoam) don’t have a specific edge support system or even really need them as long as the firmness of the support core and the thickness of the comfort layers are suitable for your body weight when you are sleeping. Foam mattresses will generally feel softer and compress more deeply if you sleep with most of your weight concentrated on the very outside edges of the mattress or if you sit on the very edge of the mattress because your weight is more concentrated when you are sitting than when you are sleeping on the mattress. There is more about edge support in foam mattresses in post #33 here.

While there are always exceptions for some people that have a strong preference for a mattress that has a specific edge support system … in most cases and for most people this is just a matter of getting used to a foam mattress (particularly if you are used to a spring mattress with edge support) and perhaps sitting or sleeping a little bit more towards the center of the mattress rather than on the very outside edges of the mattress.

Thanks once again for sharing your comments and feedback and most importantly of all … congratulations on your new mattress

Phoenix