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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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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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| so is there a big difference between 19 & 21? |
| 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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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
thanks It might work on the bottom side. You probably will need the 2 1" latex pieces + the memory foam. One varation again to consider is the memory foam between the 2 pieces of latex if it seems like there is too much cratering into the memory foam. I thought you were going to get just 1" of memory foam? I am currently using 1" 5.3 from foamorder.com. I measured it at 5.9 density. The higher density does seem to help a bit, since I seem to prefer it to the Sensus. One of these I should go back to the Sensus just to get a comparison, but I have not wanted to change. This message was modified Feb 16, 2011 by sandman
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we did order the 1 inch memory foam form overstock but they sent us the wrong stuff it was just a piece of flimsly faom not worth putting on the bed to even try it. so we sent it back. last night we put both the 21 and the 19 under the 2 inch 4lb memory foam and it was the best night we have had since all this started but my wife still woke up with mid back pain and i was still a little soft it the hip area so tonight we are putting the 21 on top of the 19 then the 2 inch 4lb memory foam. we are convinced that we need something a little denser than 4 lb so we oredered the 5.34 so we can compare thankfully we have the option of returning either the 4lb or the 5 lb if one of the other does not work. both have a 90 day free trial period so that is good because our storage unit is starting to get full. we are selling the 3 1/2 22ild queen size so if anybody would like it we will let it go for around 200 we also have the 2 inch 14ild that we are prob not going to use either so we are thinking of selling that one too. hopefully we can try and help others by not buying new we only tried these on the bed for maybe 3 or 4 nights so they are in perfect condition. anyway we will prob try the 21 on top of the 19 tonight to see what that feels like and wait for the 5.34 lb before we give another update thanks for all your help sandman thanks |