I am looking to get a new mattress for a twin XL bed I can set up in another room at an incline for GERD, and trying to sort out layers for it. I’m planning to order it from sleepez. I am mostly a side sleeper.
~5 year years ago I DIYed a split king. the long and short of it is that I made some adjustments and ended up with this configuration on my side which feels really good (from top to bottom): 2" medium dunlop, 3" medium Talalay, 3" firm dunlop, 3" firm dunlop, all in a wool/bamboo cover from Arizona Premium Mattress. (I’d started with the 3" Talalay on top but it felt too soft and I was waking up with a sore lower back, and when I switched the top layer it felt near perfect.) all this is on a wood slatted foundation from one of the vendors listed here. for the first year, I was sleeping on it with just 3 layers ( top to bottom 2" medium dunlop, 3" medium Talalay, 3" firm dunlop) but got the additional layer to finally even it out with the other side of the bed that my partner sleeps on (which, for the record, has been perfect for chronic pain: 3" medium Talalay, 3" medium Talalay, 3" firm dunlop, 2" extra firm dunlop). partner is about 5’ 7" and 230 lbs.
for the new bed, I want to keep it lower in height because of some weird ceiling configuration in the room it’s going in, basically it’s under a somewhat low nook so every inch will count. I’m trying to decide among the following options from sleepez:
from top to bottom: 2" medium Talalay, 3" medium dunlop, 3" extra firm dunlop, in a wool/cotton cover.
from top to bottom: 2" medium dunlop, 3" medium Talalay, 3" extra firm dunlop, in the wool/cotton cover.
Or should I try a 3" top layer?
my hunch is the 2" top layer is the way to go (and I can trade out some layers from the split king if I need to), but given that the 3" medium Talalay felt too soft initially, I am wondering if 2" of medium Talalay as the top layer would feel really good with the medium dunlop right under it.
If a 9" total mattress (8" of latex layers and 1" of the cover) will work for me, I would rather try that than start out with a 10" mattress given the layout of the room, as I’ll likely be putting this on a very low slatted foundation of some type and this will be put into a bit of a nook. And given that I slept for a year on 8" of latex and was quite happy with it, I think this should be an ok thickness, but I’d like to double check.
any advice you can share on this?
Also, how does the foam wedge that sleepez sells affect the feel of a mattress like this? I have another wedge ( the reflux guard https://www.refluxguard.com) but I am not sure the density of that foam.
thank you!
