Back pain on new organic latex mattress: seeking advice after multiple mattress exchanges

[phoenix]

Hi shaxpere,

Do you have a copy of the lab test results on the essentia foam? The link to it in the other posts are broken.

The links in post #63 here are working.

I contacted Essentia by email, and one thing they said is that the mattress starts out hard because of the way it’s compressed for shipping, but it softens up with used, and can take up to a month to reach its full softness. This seems a little odd, though it does explain why their return policy requires you to keep the mattress for thirty days before you can return it.

There will be a break in and adjustment period for any new mattress or sleeping system as the foam layers lose any of their initial “false firmness” and soften a little and the cover stretches and loses any initial stiffness 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.

Phoenix