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I think the difference in feel is that the all-foam sinks in differently depending on which type of foam you use(latex is boingy, p/u is just foam, MF is sinky).  To me, they don't push back like springs do.  The problems in your mattresses wasn't the springs.  It sounds like the foam in both cases.  So, try foams if you want, but you don't have to throw the baby out with the bathwater....you can get a simple mattress made the old fashioned way, with really good springs and minimal cushioning on top...then add toppers as you like.  That way you don't suffer through the lumpies again. 
I went throught a latex mattress(too boingy, too hot for me, plus eventually left a butt-dent), an air mattress(I bought Select Comfort when the first came out)...air does not push back either..and air is hard when compressed...the whole comfort level of that bed was...

I'd not spend the money if I were you.  Your father is correct, you are spending huge amounts of money for the name.  There are plenty of memory foams out there, Tempurpedic was just the first one to make a whole bed out of it and market it.  Don't waste your time on the Select Comfort air mattress either...more hype(I know, I had one).  When you buy a famous name bed you can be sure that you are spending most of your money on their advertising and all of their special stores and middlemen, not on the quality components in the bed.  Also, I've known people whose back went bad due to sleeping on total memory foam mattresses.  No support.
A couple of things about memory foam:  They sleep HOT and make you sweat....and sweat breaks down the foam.  Kind of a Catch-22.
In life, you'll find out eventually that gimmicks sell...and...

I have done mattress surgery and you aren't hurting the springs.  I personally have been the whole round-about and for MY body, spring mattresses are the absolute best feeling of all.  I like the open end offset coils.  Anyway, the problems with these beds aren't the springs usually(it would take many years of heavy bodies to impact them), but the foam layers.   Doesn't it just make you sick that they charge so much for just layers of foam?  Cheap foam...polyurethane foam primarily.  That's why pillowtops go flat so quickly...not the springs.  If you don't have some fluff then it is too firm.  If you have a lot of fluff, it gets indentations.  A real catch 22.
I would doubt that your springs are any much different than any other pocketed coil.  You paid for the name. 
As for going the route of every other bed on the site...going different won't necessarily...

IDOCTORS - In our opinion - doctors don't know any more about how to get a good night's sleep than anyone else.  The prevailing myth for so very many years is that a rock hard firm mattress is the solution for arthritis and other back and sleep pain but more and more testimony available online says that ain't so.  Plus, my bride and I have learned that sleep comfort varies from person to person - even people that seem to suffer from identical medical conditions vary greatly in their experiences with finding sleep comfort.

PRICE - In our experience - the price of a mattress has little to do with the comfort a sleeper finds on it.  Recently we tried every make and model of innerspring, foam and tempur-pedic and mattresses costing thousands were not much better to us than many that cost significantly less.  We have read a testimony from...

Have you ever thought about a waterbed?

Just kidding!


1. Not a chance...  I believe they still use cheap foam for the top layer in the latex lines.

2. I don't believe that anyone really knows for sure. Some have said that the latex FBM sells is of a lower grade. My 3" latex topper seemed fine for the price. If I were to guess I would say 10 years tops. Does anything we buy really last 20 or 30 years anymore? Personally, I wouldn't expect any mattress to provide the same comfort level for more than 10 years (unless I was dropping $20 grand on a Hastens).

3. Your perception of how this feels is going to be different than my perception and any others, the only way to know is to try it out.

4. Number 3 sounds better...

If for some reason the latex doesn't work out you can return it to FBM...

Leo3 I'm gonna look at all the beds except those with springs. I figure that an air mattress would leak as well as a water mattress, except not be as messy of course. On this site the Select Comfort gets bad reviews.  On the Select Comfort site they get great reviews.  Do they edit the comments on their site?  I don't know.  If they did I feel the word would have gotten out by now.  And there are some bad reviews on the Select Comfort site also.

I've done a lot of research over the last 2 years.  When I thought I had made up my mind on a mattress it changed.  I was sold on the SleepEZ bed but now I don't know. It gets great reviews here but when there are exceptions to the reviews it makes me think again.  It's also hard to seperate the BS from the...

We bought our king size Natural Form (formerly SAT) bed in December 2007. The previous 3 (gruelling) years were spent tossing and turning on a Select Comfort 5000. On that bed, I would wake up several times a night with loss of feeling in my arms if I had been sleeping on my side. I would also wake up with clammy skin (there was a small amount of mildew on the air mattress cover as a result of no air circulation). I started having back problems. The a-ha moment for me was after tent camping, sleeping on a queen size air mattress. You can see when the heaviest parts of your body sink down, the air in the mattress under the light parts of your body, mainly your legs, goes up. There is no support where you need it. Select Comfort is a single chambered air mattress with a big...

Question: What is this custom mattress company's guarantee and return policy if you are not satisfied? Can you exchange it for another mattress? Can you return it, in lets say 90 days, for a complete refund? How long is the guarantee and what are the conditions. What exacetly is the configuration of the components, what type of foam etc., can you select.?...

Hi Steve: Well my friend you are going through right now what I am about to go through. I have been doing all the reading and trying to ascertain who has the best price, and better business bureau reports, and return policies etc. now that I have narrowed it down to a couple of companies I have to decide between talalay and dunlop and firmness layers. Not an easy process when there is no dealer close by where I can try out the mattresses.

So next week I am going out of state to a dealer and actually lay down on the various configurations. From what you are saying in your post you made a mistake by erring on the side of firmness. From everything I am reading, your experience would've been entirely different had you chosen talalay.   Talalay seems to me to be a much more "springy" type of latex...

Hmm, no replies. Maybe I should be more specific.

Here is what I have learned so far:

ClassicBed by Tempur-Pedic 5.3 density top two layers, base layer unknown 15 ILD HR unknown
Select Foam Luxuria 10h 5.3 density on top foam, two lower layers unknown 30+ ILD HR unknown
Sleep Innovations Novaform
Elite ...