Mattress Forum

I found some sources that say that this zoning scheme is good for side sleepers with wide shoulders and normal hips. Sounds good, I'd say thats me; but my feeling on the Royal-pedic was that my hips were really being pressed up, aka I felt pressure points on my hips. The bed I was on only had 2" of padding on top, its possible that more padding would have reduced the pressure and felt better.

But when I think about it, I think I should probably have the firmest support in the lumbar (belly) region, because thats really where most of my weight is. And, I see that there is something called reverse zoning, which does just that (firmer under lumbar, softer under hips and shoulders). Problem is I cant find any mattresses zoned this way. I saw some posts here saying the Simmons Backguard is zoned this way but I'm not getting any hits on that for google shopping, maybe its discontinued or the name changed? Can anyone point to any? Latex or spring is fine, I just wanna see if reverse zoning feels better to me. 

Any other feedback on this also appreciated.

Steve