I should start off and say that I've been sleeping in spring mattresses my whole life. The mattress I ended up replacing was a pretty firm spring mattress that I bought for $500 when I was going to school around five years ago. I've been having problems waking up early morning with pain from all over my back and neck. Come to think of it, I would haven't gotten a good night's sleep for a long while now. Also, I can feel every movement that my wife makes during the night, especially when she goes to the bathroom. I would at least wake up 3-4 times every night. I can bore all of you with the long list of uncomfortness that I've been feeling but I won't. Not only do I need a new mattress, but I need a good one that can alieve my discomfortness and for me and my wife to get a good night's sleep.
We went to the mattress store and spent at over 4 hours there laying on different beds as well as asking millions of questions to the sales rep who is also the owner of the store. Not to bore you with all the details but we ended up buying the Serta Icomfort Revolution. We bought it becuase it felt pretty good in the store and that there's a 120 day return/exchange without a fee. Awesome I thought as if I didn't like the bed I can exchange it for something else in a few months. It's worth a try I suppose. Then after I went home I went online to research the icomfort revolution. I reckon that I should of researched the bed before I bought it. Anyways, though the mattress has not been out in the market for a long time, I did gather some positives and some negatives about the revolution. Most of the review and opinions were from this very forum, which is awesome. I gathered the most information from the moderator of this site, Phoenix, who has shared an extensive amount of knowledge with respect to different mattresses.
I've been laying on the revolution for a few days now and it is hard but I'm sure it'll loosen up and be plush as it is meant to be (thought I am not even sure if a plush mattress fits my need). I do, however, have some buyer's remorse though. I understand that you get what you pay, however, I don't want to pay a premium price for a mattress that cost only a fraction of the price with lesser known brand. I spent countless hours on this forum reading and I am now leaning towards a latex mattress. I went back to the store and had another long talk with the owner of the store have narrowed down my choices to the following beds should the revolution not work out. My choice is either one of the diamond mattress ethos line, specifically the "Natural" or the "Hybird" line.
www.diamondmattress.com/Ethos/Beds/Mattress.aspx
My questions are as follows:
1) This is probably a dumb question but I am not sure if I would benefit more from a firmer mattress or a more plush mattress. The mattress owner told me that people assume that a more firm mattress would be better for their back but they only regard firm in the few top layers instead of the bottom layers. Being sleeping on a firm mattress my whole life, I have no clue how I would react to something more plush.
2) With respect to the "Natural Peace" ethos line, it has a eco flex plant base form system (no idea what that is, but I think it's just a basic memory foam) and the latex foam on top of base foam. The "Hybird" line has the latex foam on top of the 744 individual wrap coils support system. Out of the "Natural" and the "Hybird" line, which would be better and why (is latex foam better on top of individual coils or is latex foam better on top of memory foam)?
I'm 5'11, 180lbs
My wife is: 5'5, 130lbs
thanks for reading