Contour Backmax Foam Bed Wedge

I am 6' 2" male with a bad back. I must sleep reclined at an angle and the angle the back pillow portion is too shallow for me. I need to prop it up further but if I turn it around to the sitting up position it is too high for sleeping.

It is not possible to keep the two main wedges right next to each other where you get in that zero gravity position they talk about. The two move a part each time but the zippered and stretch material keep them from separating too far a part. There is this zero pillow area at that point though so you really can not lay this on the floor without any pillows or mattress under it at least where your butt lands.

I do not really like the memory foam and prefer it be a little more supportive than what it is but it is solid and you don't really push into it. I just don't like the memory foam feel. The little pillow is directional which they don't show in the pictures so you have to reverse it turning it around if the wrong end is facing your head and neck. Which you have to do by feel of course because I am not going to get up to turn it around.

I use a similar type of material blanket and put over the sleep system instead of laying directly on the attached cover. Good luck getting that off and on if you need to wash it.

It really does not smell coming out of the box but after you unroll it removing it from the tightly compressed vacuum suctioned wrapping. Good luck returning this if you had to. You will NEVER get it back into that compressed state again.

It does fold up into a cube and you can use it as a little table if you wanted to.

The foot thing that is suppose to fold up to support your full legs and feet. It keeps moving away and falling down the back so your legs are NOT as shown in the picture for the FULL recline position. I used to use pillows to extend out for my calves and feet but that was actually annoying after awhile because the pillows are much softer and less support than the sleep system material and it just feels weird laying out and your feet are in softer pillow than the rest of you, I don't like that feeling so I don't use the pillows anymore to extend out the feet part.

Because of my back I can't really lay on this for an entire sleep cycle. Most I can do is around 6 hours then I have to get up and lay in my recliner. This is comfortable but I need it more angled up for the back support, I used various things from boxes to yoga support blocks to raise the back up and it works but is pain to set it up each night and if you don't have enough support under the back when you do this I can see it breaking at the pressure points your weight put on it.

I don't get the zero gravity triangle wedge you can place yourself into with this. Because at that point where your butt hits the ground. It HURTS if you have no pillows under there. The two wedges separate moving apart. That whole we have this rough bottom that prevents it from moving is a LIE!. It does move.
UNLESS you are short and not very heavy. I am TALL and heavy, the pillows move apart. If they were not zippered together they would move across the room from each other leaving me on the floor. Tried it.

If you are going to do the zero gravity and you are TALL and heavy you need to put the back pillow UNDER the leg wedge portion where your upper leg and butt are supported by pillow and not directly on the floor. This may break or damage the wedges over time, I don't know. It is the only way I can do the Zero Gravity position but the problem is these two sections slide a part. AND when you do this you are shortening the length of the system so your legs hang over the bottom of the system even more. Not very comfortably.

After experiencing the Zero Gravity and the regular position. I don't get it. Not really much of a difference to me. The idea sounds comfortable the reality is the system is too short to really do this well if you are over 6' tall.

There is no smell to it. Right out the box there is a smell but it fades over hours, days. Is more a boxing smell than a product smell that lasts and lasts.

There is warning messages all over the wrapping to not use a sharp instrument to cut the wrapper or plastic it is wrapped in. You don't really need a knife or scissors other than opening the box. The plastic wrapper slides or rolls off so no need to cut anything other than the box to open it.

I was sleeping on it 6 hours after taking it out of the box and letting it puff up. It still needed to puff up more but I was tired so I slept on it, as is, at the 6 hour mark. Then over the next week it filled out 100%.
I wasn't paying attention to how long it took. It was more days than a week.

If you put this on a bed I can see you falling off the bed if you roll.

If you are a slide sleeper, do not get this product. I can't get comfortable on my side with this. You are forced into a back only position.

If you unzip or do not zip the pieces they will move a part on you when you are laying on them as shown in the pictures. If you are short and or do not weigh very much this may not happen.

I am keeping this but it does need adjustment to fit me personally for both angle of back to make it higher and for length. They designed this for short people in length and tall people for back and butt wedge but neither for keeping it together and the anti-slip material on the bottom needs a different kind of material to actually keeping it from moving on carpet and non-carpeted floors it slides like no other.