| Seems to be a lot of chatter regarding heat issues w/ foam beds. I am 6'1" 235 lb with an arthritic knee and sweat excesively due to a medical condition and my wife is 5'6" and 135 lb w/ a bad back (no sweat issues). We both sleep on our side. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. |
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I'll say that I'm 5'10" 165 lb and prefer a cooler bed at night. I've never noticed a heat problem when sleeping on our latex guest bed. Maybe it's a problem for those who want to pile on lots of blankets no matter the temperature.
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Memory Foam/Tempurpedic "style" Foam = seems to have quite a few complaints about Heat Issues Latex Foam = very few people complain about heat issues |
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I had to get rid of the memory foam topper on my bed, because in the summer it felt like I was sleeping on a giant heating pad. Latex is much cooler. Also, our bedroom is below 65 in the winter, and memory foam is just too stiff for comfort, it felt like sleeping on a sack of flour. Live and learn. |
| Sleeping on latex or memory foam can be made cooler by using a wool topper. There are some threads on this in the past couple months. Budgy I believe said something about Linen, too, but I'm not sure. I find that wool really feels nice on top of my latex. Check out those threads on wool toppers. |
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racer wrote: Seems to be a lot of chatter regarding heat issues w/ foam beds I suppose I should qualify my previous statements to indicate that the memory foam I replaced was an older (~5 years) "Carpenter" style, around 5#. Still in very good shape, I just couldn't stand it anymore. There are a lot of newer foams out there, which are designed to disspiate heat more, and give you less of a "sinking" feeling when you sleep on them, and they rebound faster. A friend of mine bought the NutraTemp bed @ CostCo, and it seems very different. I wouldn't say it feels like Latex, but it doesn't feel much like my Carpenter foam felt, either. I've also seen a few different ads for foams that are mixed with Latex, instead of synthetic polymers, to make memory foam (perhaps that is the case with NutraTemp, I don't know.) Anyway, my comments about "sleeping on a heating pad" were in regard to the traditional style of memory foam, not the newer types. This message was modified Apr 24, 2010 by doubtingthomas
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thank you all for your input..........now how about some recommendations. we are in So. Fla. and would like a queen or possibly a king. |