Trouble with DIY latex build for well over a year and a half, causing back pain! Please help!

Hello everyone! I am in a serious conundrum. For well over a year and a half I have suffered through pain every single night. I know I knowwwwww it is a little bit nuts to allow yourself that but as time has gone on I have become more confused about what to do. From bottom to top I have a 3" dunlop firm/ 3" dunlop medium/ 2" talalay soft. I am 5’5" and 165 pounds. I am a back sleeper who sometimes likes to turn on my side for comfort. I mostly sleep on my back due to a long-standing series of back injuries and a very physical job and it is what my PT has told me to do. With all the copays I am gonna trust the woman. Anyway! Every night I have godawful hip pain and buttock pain. Seemingly depending on my position, I then either get lower back pain and/or middle back pain. I wake up with terrible hip pain and usually a significant amount of stiffness. But whew doggy that hip pain is no joke. Thankfully I have to wake up and start moving at my job which helps the stiffness. But on the weekend it will last for hours and forces me to stretch to stand up straight.

I have tried putting the firm overtop of the medium. I have tried sleeping with no talalay. I have tried any combo you can think of. Without the talalay was torture. I tried it for nights and the stiffness/pain went from my hips down my entire legs and even into my feet. At this point I have added a 1 1/2 " memory foam topper hoping it would help. It doesn’t but I admit I am a sucker for the feel of memory foam. Anyway I believe in latex and the magic it can do for my body. I do not find the talalay uncomfortable and am capable of falling asleep on it. After an hour or so I am up fitful all night long.

Pleaseeeeee give me some advice. Is it too soft or too hard? Do I need a soft dunlop or a harder talalay? A taller soft talalay or no talalay at all? This pain and lack of sleep has finally caught up to me and I am suffering from it. Not to mention the pain! What does the pain in those areas mean? From all my research it seems I am sort of in the middle of too hard or too soft. I have been directed to get a 2" soft dunlop. I have been directed to get a 3" soft talalay. I have been directed to get a 3" firm talalay. Ugh! This feels impossible and notgonnalie we all know this is expensive.

ANYTHING ANYONE can offer me is muchly appreciated!!! Thank you!!!

2" talalay: 19-22 ILD
both the dunlop are SOL and notgonnalie I am confused about their different rating system

Sorry to hear about your ongoing struggle and having to deal with continual pain. Since your situation involves both Dunlop and Talalay latex I’d suggest consulting with two of the most knowledgeable and experienced sellers of both, Sleep EZ and Arizona Premium Mattress who are both Trusted Members of TMU. You could either contact them via email or in their Expert Forums on this site, providing them with the details of your current setup, problems you’re experiencing and the variations you’ve tried. I think they’d be best qualified to make a suggestion on what to try with a good chance of success based on their extensive experience.

Good luck,

  • Bill

Thank you for that suggestion. I am new to the forum so I appreciate the direction. I posted on both of them so thanks for helping me hopefully get some direction sooner!