Seeking advice on latex mattress for couple with very different body weights

[phoenix]

Hi Clawdia,

I’m not exactly sure what layering you’re asking after, so here’s all of it . .

I just wanted to confirm all the “parts” of your sleeping system and make sure nothing had changed and that I hadn’t forgotten anything so I could see if anything jumped out at me.

I didn’t realize that your latex was as soft as it was. Are you sure the numbers are correct? (you can see the ILD and density for Latex Green 100% natural Dunlop here). In looking back over your posts I thought that your comfort layer was 65 density and that your support core was 70 density.

Based on the softness of your layers and your comments here …

I’m still having bilateral hip pain radiating downward whenever I take the feather bed topper off the dunlop mattress, even though the mattress is soft. Just went to see my doctor about the pain, who put me on a prednisone taper (which has helped the pain, although I don’t know why except that it always seems to help the joint/muscle pain caused by my auto-immune disease), and had back x-rays taken although I don’t yet know the results. He’s a DO and not an MD, for whatever that’s worth, and did say if it’s the mattress causing that type of pain he thinks it would be an indication that it’s too firm rather than too soft since I told him my spine was in good alignment on the mattress.

… I keep getting a nagging feeling that your support layers may be too soft overall which may be putting your hips out of alignment and it may even be worth testing your mattress with the support core on top (or turned upside down) with the Lanoodles topper on top to see if it makes a difference in your symptoms. Your support layers are certainly on the soft side. It may also be worth trying an inch or so of softer polyfoam (which would be very inexpensive) in the middle section of your mattress under the top layer just to test the “theory” that raising your hips may improve your alignment and might help with your pain.

Phoenix