Mattress Forum

The "sleep advisor" on their website recommends the following, and I'm wondering (realizing everyone's different) if these are a good starting point - especially as Flobeds has apparently changed their swap-out policy on the cores and it's now much more costly to get it right..

- Wife: 110 lbs, 5'4, slide sleeper (sometimes back sleeper): vzone, medium, medium

- Me: 160 - 180 lbs (now closer to 180 but tend to go back and forth in this range), 5'8, stomach sleeper (sometimes side sleeper): vzone, firm, medium

Wife layed in a TempurPedic Cloud Luxe the other day (the super soft one) and "really" liked it.  So, I'm wondering if we shouldn't go vzone, soft, medium for her?

The vzone recommendations are apparently based on the layer directly underneath, so here's what the site came up with for each of us:

- Wife: Soft, Soft, Medium, Soft, Firm, Medium (head to foot - 1st two soft sections are for head and shoulder areas, then medium lumbar, soft hips, firm knees and medium foot)

- Me: Medium, Soft, Firm, Medium, X-Firm, Firm

She has occasional hip pain (possibly caused by our 20+ year old S mattress), and I have moderate shoulder and neck pain (ditto).

BTW, Flobeds has changed their swap-out policy, so it's no longer "just get something and swap it if you need to", so it's MUCH more difficult / costly now days, which we really don't like one bit.  (SleepEZ will still swap cores as much as you need, but doesn't offer a V-Zone, so we're still going back and forth between the two options).

Also - given the new policy and wife's preference for soft, I'm wondering if we shouldn't go soft/medium for her 2 underneath-the-V-zone cores, as we then wouldn't have two of the same firmness cores on her side.  (Or, go medium-firm for the same reason..maybe we'd be OK since the v-zone would have a lot of soft regions for her, and there's also the 2'' convoluted layer on top of the v-zone anyway?)

Thanks for any / all feedback and suggestions!