My Luxi experience and hybrid mattress questions

[phoenix]

Hi DMSexton47,

I’ve been sleeping on it for two weeks so far, and while it’s true that my back is improving, the rest of me isn’t faring so well. I feel the mattress does a poor job of pressure relief, and I’ve been tossing and turning all night and waking up really sore. Combine that with the general unresponsiveness of the mattress and getting out of bed in the mornings has been a herculean feat, for all the wrong reasons.

I would probably suggest a phone conversation with Luxisleep since they may have some suggestions that may be helpful to improve your sleeping experience. Soreness is certainly one of the potential “symptoms” during the break in and adjustment period but it may also be that you are using a configuration that isn’t the most suitable for you and if you spend a few weeks on a different and more suitable configuration then your experience may improve. Of course it’s also possible that none of the configurations will be suitable for you (although that would be somewhat uncommon). It would be very uncommon that the firm configuration was the most suitable choice so I would probably focus more on the soft and medium configuration.

I would also keep in mind that if you are using a mattress protector or a mattress pad that this can also have an effect on how the mattress feels and responds and I would also make sure that you are using a suitable foundation as well (a firm, flat, non yielding support surface similar to the floor that doesn’t allow any sagging in the mattress)

There is also more about the most common symptoms that people may experience when they sleep on a mattress and the most likely (although not the only) reasons for them in post #2 here that may be helpful as well.

I don’t think it’s unrealistic to want a bed that can support my back and still feel soft / relieve pressure. At the very least, the Luxi mattress has been valuable in showing me what I want to avoid in a mattress. And if the Alexander Hybrid is even in the ballpark of other hybrids I’ve tried, (which the materials and construction seem to indicate) then I think I’ll be much better off.

It’s certainly possible that a mattress can have firm support and still “feel” soft and relieve pressure at the same time and the goal of every mattress purchase is to make sure that is provides both good support/alignment and good pressure relief because these are the are the two basic “needs” of a mattress and are the main factors that affect the quality of your sleep (much more than the more subjective “feel” of a mattress). “Support” is often misunderstood because the goal of a “supportive” mattress is to keep the spine and joints in good alignment and this requires the type of contouring support that allows some parts of the body to sink in more (softer) and some parts of the body to sink in less (firmer) and this will vary on an individual basis. There is more about primary or “deep” support and secondary or “surface” support and their relationship to firmness and pressure relief and the “roles” of different layers in a mattress in post #2 here and in post #4 here that may also be helpful in clarifying the difference between “support/alignment” and “comfort/pressure relief” and “feel” and how they interact together.

As I mentioned in my last reply there are also different types of firmness or softness that different people may be sensitive to that will affect how they “rate” the firmness of a mattress.

And if the Alexander Hybrid is even in the ballpark of other hybrids I’ve tried, (which the materials and construction seem to indicate) then I think I’ll be much better off.

I would keep in mind that while the specs of a mattress can tell you about the quality and durability of the materials … they will tell you very little about the firmness of a mattress or how a mattress “feels” so I would make sure that you talk to them on the phone before a purchase.

Am I required to sleep on it 30 days before they’ll let me return it?

Yes … you can see their return policy here. Most manufacturers have a minimum requirement because it’s so common that the first few days or weeks of sleeping on a mattress aren’t a reliable indication of how they will sleep in the longer term once the mattress has broken in and their body has become used to a mattress that is different from what they are used to.

Phoenix