6’ tall 135 pound male, 42 year old who is a princess on a pea. My body seems to pair bond with one mattress and not really be able to sleep on anything else. I used to be a stomach sleeper but after cervical fusion can no longer do that. I switch from side to side to back. My wife sleeps on an Avocado green mattress with our two young kids but I can’t sustainably sleep on it because of mid/lower back pain and shoulders. I feel like my mid/lower back sinks down too low. Up until recently I slept on a 5" futon that was fairly firm, but then when our baby was born I started sleeping on an old, used, Serta Eventide upstairs and since then I haven’t been able to sleep on anything else. Since my wife and kids already sleep on a king Avocado, there is only room to attach a twin to our crazy ultra-wide bed in the bedroom, and unfortunately my Serta is a full.
My experience has been that I’ve never really been comfy on a foam bed, but firm innersprings work great. I saw a post on here about the Beloit mattress company and they’re 3 hours away so I’m planning to get one of theirs. I’m a bit overwhelmed with all the different options and this layer and that that I can add for more money. I’ll call them tomorrow and run it by them, but I’m curious if there’s other skinny guys that have found firm mattresses only work for them. My Serta Eventide has basically no information on the internet other than a couple auction websites, so I have no idea what it is beyond being an innerspring mattress. I’m wary of anything with too much foam as it feels too hot to me and feels weird when I lay on it. I’m considering anything between Beloit’s most basic “basic royal” innerspring to their “orthopedic firm/medium” innerspring mattresses. Thank god for finding a place without the ridiculous markup and gimmicks. I also feel suspicious of the whole “zoning” of a mattress as my body doesn’t seem to match most mattresses.