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After reading this forum, I am so confused. Some people say - buy latex, others say no it did not help. Some say flobeds, some say sleepez, some say costco, some say sams club. Others say no don't. what would be the best choice for a low back pain patient. Appreciate help. |
| Roy1, I feel going with the the Super Firm and X-Firm latex layers with only a 1" latex layer on top or if you are much heavier a 2" latex layer cushion may work will help back pain. Well this is what worked for me. I have split layers from FloBeds (other companies also sell split layers), with Super Firm (44 to 46 ILD) latex cores on the bottom, X-Firm latex cores in the middle (35 - 39 ILD) and X-Firm latex cores on top (37 ILD) with a 1" soft latex topper over them (I bought from Brylane Homes in a Queen Size). Also the right pillow height in latex also helped me. If the bed is too soft, it feels great at first but then the back starts to hurt if there is any back issues. |
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okay, back to where I have confusion. The 2 replies have confused me again. One says memory foam is best, other says latex. I understand sleepez does not have retail stores, why are they not selling in retail stores? If they are selling in retail stores, please tell me which ones. I can see flobeds ad here too, does it sells in retail stores where I can test If I like the product? Apperciate help. This message was modified May 13, 2010 by roy1
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roy1 wrote: okay, back to where I have confusion. The 2 replies have confused me again. One says memory foam is best, other says latex. I understand sleepez does not have retail stores, why are they not selling in retail stores? If they are selling in retail stores, please tell me which ones. I can see flobeds ad here too, does it sells in retail stores where I can test If I like the product? Apperciate help. Some people with back pain will like Tempurpedic and some will like latex. Personally I think you should go with Flobeds or Costco, that way you are out nothing except shipping if you don't like it. (Or does CostCo even pay for the shipping? Not sure...) Try latex. There are no retail stores for Flobeds or SleepEZ. But Flobeds has a full refund minus shipping costs, so if you don't like it you're not out a lot of $. Personally, I have back pain and the fact is I've tried memory foam, latex, memory foam+latex, latex plus springs, etc. etc. and none of it is working all that great for me. I have had MORE success with springs plus latex but I think having just the right springs is key and I think I have the wrong springs for me. The problem is, no one really makes a great mattress with springs plus latex so you have to buy a regular spring mattress then do mattress surgery on it - take out the crappy pu foam and put in latex instead. The reason you are confused with many different recommendations is because everyone is different and you have to try various things to see what works for you. The one thing most people here will agree on though is that the S company mattresses - Sealy, Serta, Stearns and Foster, etc. - all make their mattresses with a lot of polyurethane or PU foam which is to say, foam that is low quality and will wear out quickly. So most of us do not recommend SCo beds, except as used per above - buy it, tear it apart and use only the springs. Otherwise, if you want a "regular" spring mattress without doing surgery you're going to have to go to a custom manufacturer and pay upwards of $4000-6000 for a mattress truly made with quality materials. And even those aren't always liked by the customers, and you often do not get a sleep trial with them. So imho, the best bet is to buy a mattress just for the springs, open it up and start experimenting with various latex layers to try to get just the right firmness for you. |
| agree with everything you just said. problem is finding great springs. I started a thread asking if there was a way to buy springs only in a box and budgy said not likely. to get a strong coil spring outfit means buying a very expensive mattress you don't want - or just going for a handmade shifman, beckley or hastens. I am going to contact Legget and Platt and see if they will sell me coils in a box. I had hoped to just pick one up at a garage sale or something, but very very few people even know what coil system is in their mattress, and as we all know, the makers do not really want us to know. |
| Google Sleepeze, it shows their retail address, in Arizona. They have a store. They also make spring mattresses. Gardner also makes their own mattresses, and I believe Sleepeze makes flippable mattresses still. Call and ask them. Doesn't Gardner makes mattresses to a customers specifications? Or am I confused with another mattress maker. |
| I have found a number of small factories with 2 sided mattresses. one right in Brooklyn. but they mostly do not use great coil systems. on another thread a poster just bought a gardner but the coil count was 260. most are around 300 from what I can see.and they are all, so far at least, bonnell. which is not what I want to build on. I could try it on a simmons system, but they have had failure problems and I don;t know if it would hold up. |