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hello im new to the forum and need some advice, after reading all about your experience you guys and gals seem to know your stuff sandman seems like i could use you as a mattress investor specialist' im 45 170 pounds have nerve damage and nerothapy in my ribs and back, im a slide sleeper but i toss and turn all night because of the pain. my wife is 33 and 130 pounds she is a side sleeper (even though ever time i wake up she is on her back). lol we made a big mistake and purchased a bed through OMI its all latex it has a 10 inch base 6 " being extra firm 4 inches being medium. dont know the ild. :( and then we purchased a 3 1/2 inch 22ild to put on top because the firstt mattress was to hard for my wife and i. i know i know should have bought a flobed or sleepez, but here is the problem we are now to broke to due anything. we tried a 2" 14 but that was way to soft and now we are returning it. the 3 1/2 inch is almost right but it hurts my shoulders and my wife wakes up with headaches and her back hurts lower and upper, i awake with my middle back hurting and my neck. so we are thinking to buy a 1" 19 and a 1" 28 or so to try to have some options and we wanted to know what you guys thought? is 1" going to make a difference. we found a company that we can purchase 1" 2" 3" any ild and return it if its not right .. for a small fee.. so for we have spent over 4000. the bed is on a slat foundation and the size is a queen. hoping someone can guide us in making a better decision then we have so far. cant believe the caveman slep on a rock and we cant sleep after spending 4 grand. :(
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yes roy we have tried memory foam, and wished we didnt our last mattress was a simmons nxg 400 plush cost 3295.00 ans we had it for about a year it consist of 5 inches of memory foam over 980 coil wrapped springs it was the perfect bed the last bed i would ever buy. so i thought after 8 months the memory foam broke down and i was lying in a hole from hell tried everything to fix it ended up giving it to goodwill. i'll never go back to memory foam again. but this is only my bad experience with memory foam i think if you stay in the 1 or 2 inch range it might work for some people but for us it was a mistake. the temperpedic cloud feels the same as the simmons nxg and looking at reviews online the tpc has the same complaints as we had with our nxg so i " trying to go with latex... trying is the key word here..
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chas0512 wrote: hi sandman sorry for the confusion .. im a little confused myself with all this ordeal. ok the bottom lago is 6 inches of firm with 3 1/2 inches of medium all wrapped up and stuffed with 2 inches of wooll in there mattress cover. than we purchased a second mattress/topper of 3 1/2 inches of 22ild all wrapped up in 2 inches of wool and incased in there mattress cover. if you go to OMI website you can see the terra matrress this is what we have only we have the lago on the bottom instead of there terra bottom.
so we are now using the just the lago the way it came just as it says on the OMI website and we took apart the terra topper and are no longer putting it into the mix. we put the 14 2 inch on top of the lago and it was very close but my hips and shoulders still felt to firm and my wife was complaining about the same . thus i guessing it was just to soft. so today we ordered the 1 inch of 19 and a 1 inch of 21 to put on top of the the lago hoping that in fact it will bring a slight new feel giving us enough support that our hips dont bottom out put still soft eough on our shoulders that it will be just right. plus we will have the option of using the 14,19,21 all thre or just 2. in any case i still think we just need 2 inches of 19 but figured the 21 was a little extra option plus we can fold over the 19 to see what 2 inches would feel like or fold over the 21 to see what that would feel like. we are now on a mission, i remember the movie the money pit with tom hanks and we are not far from it. but at least talking to sleeplikeabear they are willing to help us evelyn said we could return up to three so im hoping that at least one of these combinations will work for us. we are getting close really close and we might end up cutting the queen down the middle with an electric knife if in fact she likes a different combo than I. will update you when we recieve the 19 and the 21 they said we would get it thursday so i will give you an update. thanks aaron So, you have always been using the Lago with the wool on top? I assume it is sewn shut and you cannot remove it. I think having some wool on top is a good thing, but it makes it more complicated when you are adding toppers on top of it. If you can take it off, I would suggest trying the 14 directly on top of the 24 if possible (or even the 3.5" 22). It seems like the 14 might be pretty close, and maybe you will just need to add 1" of the 19 or 21 below (or above) it. I guess you will have some combinations to try. It probably adds some softness that you want, but maybe not quite enough depth to keep from hitting the firm surface below. Good luck and keep us informed! |
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wow must be stupid cant figue out how he did the slide show link lol http://img402.imageshack.us/slideshow/player.php?id=img402/5576/1296511255jgh.smil well if this works here is what weve done so far |
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ok the 1 inch 21 ild celsion and 1 inch 19 ild queen arrived yesterday and i am still impressed with the quality of latex we are getting from SLAB. they were not glued or torn. and very little if at all smell. we started out with the 21 on top of the 19 on top of the medium lago but this seemed a bit to hard for my shoulders so we then switched to try the 21 on top of the 2 inch 14ild ... way too soft ( i new that would happen) so we put the the 21 under the 19 on top of the lago and at first it still seemed hard on my shoulders.. ( i know im a picky "insert profanity here" person) but as the night went on . Now about 1 am with all the switching, i was able to fall asleep. when we awoke the next morning i felt fine a little sore from all the different configurations that my body has gone through in the last month, but all in all not bad. my wife....... another story she says its still to soft.. SO....going to cut... :" i know i know if i cut a cant return" but cant sleep either so .. cutting :"( the 21 and the 19 so my wife can put the 21 on top of the 19 and i can still remain with my 19 over the 21. we will try this for about a week before we make any more adjustments. i still have time to return the 2 inch 14 to SLAB .. wife still loves the feeling of the 14 but we cant throw it into the mix unless we went to a 24 then maybe we could get away with a i inch 14 on top of that.. but.... then i would have to rob another bank.. still wanted for the other bank robberey so i dont think we will go that route. and yes 2 one inch layers made a HUGE difference one inch buy itself a big NOT .. but combine the 19 and the 21 and wow.! so im off to cutting the latex with my new electric knife!!!
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| ok the difference between SLAB 21 and 19 are pretty big but i think it is because we went with the celsion and its blended so its makes it a bit dense. and we are dealing in only one inch so its hard to tell but there is a firmness difference for sure. |
| I am contemplating myself whether to get 19 or 21 1" and then fold it in half to see if I need additional layer |
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we continue trying to get it right, last night i slept on the 19 over the 21 wich is on top of the OMI lago and it was a little on the .. hmm whats the right word its soft but at the same time very springy firm if that makes sense.at least on my shoulders. my wife tried her 21 over the 19 said it was too firm. so what i am now thinking is the sandman approach and mixing in a one inch layer of memory foam to the bottom of my 19 between the 19 and the 21 i ordered the one from overstock that everyone on here recomended. going to try the 2 inch 14 on top of the 21 tonight the memory foam will be here on feb 11 so we have some time to keep trying. open to comments plz thanks |
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update: my wife and i have been sleeping better in the last couple of days we ended up putting a 1 inch memory foam on top of the 19 over the 21 and it seems to have made it better for both of us my wife no longer has back pain. i will still have pain because of my nerve problems, however we are sleeping better, the 1 inch memory foam is cheap and from wall-mart so im waiting to get the 4lb hopefully this week and the 1 inch sensus that sandman recomends from overstock, hoping to try either the 2 inch over just the 21 or 19 or the 1 inch 5 lb memory foam over the 19 and 21 we will test all of these until we get it right. we ended keeping the 2 inches of 14 ild queen are will probably sell it it on the forum its all one piece not glued and is new condition we only tried it a couple times. will update you guys when we get the new memory foam
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update feb 14th we recieved the new piece of 2 inch 4lb memory foam, and .. my wife liked it...but it seemed to bottom out on my side, plus the lago is already getting a pretty good size dip where my hips are, i blame it on all the 2 inches of wool that OMI uses, dewey at flobeds warned me about this being a problem with OMI but thick headed as i am.. and more is better has proven out to be not such a good idea. anyway we are flipping the lago to the xxxfirm side and are going to try building the 21 one inch then the 19 one inch then the 2 inches of 4 lb memory foam. we just tried the memory foam directly on top of the medium side of the lago last night so tonight we are trying for the 2 inches of softer latex with the 2 inches of memory foam. if this doesnt work there is another place that sells 5.34 lb memory foam with a 90 day money back guarentee so we can compare and choose the one that is best. the place that has the 5.34 lb also has latex toppers so in case you guys have never heard of them im posting there link if you have i would like your imput on the quality plz thanks http://www.selectfoam.com/cat-Toppers.htm
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