Hi, I wondered if you could give me your opinion on a mesh based bed frame or a straight slatted bed frame and whether either would help a mattress to become firmer.

I am considering getting one, as at the beginning of December I bought a new gainsborough pocket sprung mattress in a medium tension (as my old mattress had become too soft and was giving me the most awful lower back pain) and put it on to a beech sprung slatted base with the slats being about 6.5 - 7cm apart.

To begin with it was great and my back felt 100 times better, however for the past 3-4 weeks or so i have gone back to having the same back pain and am now wondering if the base is making the mattress feel a lot softer now that it has settled.

I am quite sure in the store it was on a straight slatted frame so this is the other option but i recently slept on a mesh based bed frame at a friends and the bed was very firm (along with the mattress being pretty firm too) I am really just after an opinion on slatted base beds helping a mattress to be firmer and whether a mesh based bed would be better and even firmer for a pocket sprung mattress.

Thank you.

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