We decided to get a new mattress a month or so ago, and like most people got thoroughly confused by all of the mattress hype. We got onto the latex idea, and instead of getting a pure latex mattress, ended up buying a JCPenney's Simmons new hope danny seo pillowtop mattress. At first we thought wow, this is great, but after a few weeks I started to have a lower back ache (where I never had one in the past). So I knew it was the bed. Its too soft for me. I am a stomach sleeper (150lbs) and my wife (140lbs) is a side sleeper who actually seems to like this bed. I can tell you that this bed is pure hype and only has two inches of Talalay latex way down under about fourteen layers of something else. In other words what is really doing the work is the top layer. We had a 30 day trial and are going to see if they will give us a credit for this bed for some other furniture, I think they will do this. It was about $2000. They must be making a lot of money on this product. It looks nice, but that is all.
I do like the latex idea and see such a wild range of prices it is confusing. What I am thinking about is letting the foambymail company make me a 9" mattress with 6" of firm (33-38ILD) and then topped with either 2" or 3" of half soft latex topper for my wife (side sleeper) and half medium latex topper for me. This looks like just under a thousand bucks and I would have to get a foundation somewhere, which I could probably find locally.
Is this a reasonable scenario that would work for a stomach and side sleeper? What are other combos that might be as good. I do see that foambymail is mentioned as being a reliable company by most of the people that have actually bought something from them.
Any help or other foam sources would be appreciated.
Bill in Oregon
This message was modified Oct 25, 2008 by BillB
