I’ve been experiencing neck pain over the last few years, and am thinking a better pillow would help reduce the pain.
A day doesn’t go by that I don’t hear a radio commercial or see an internet ad for MyPillow. Reviews on Amazon are mostly positive. Does anyone here have one?
Are you a shill for mypillow? A quick search does not show mostly positive reviews.
Try searching “mypillow scam” and read some of those comments!
The Amazon rating is only 3.5 overall. 19% 1 star ratings is way too high(for me) to consider a purchase.
A number of reviews mentioned receiving the product free or discounted in exchange for a review.
For me, that’s an automatic no.
ETA: Not all of the Amazon reviews are a verified purchase.
Barring certain orthopedic issues, no one needs a brand-name “custom” pillow. It’s entirely possible that you have the wrong kind of pillow for your body shape and sleeping style. It’s probable that a lot of people have made poor choices for sleep gear, having bought what they have for entirely wrong reasons (or no good reason at all)… and this opens the door to charlatans like MyPillow and SleepNumber beds and $5,000 mattresses.
The goal is (usually) to have your spine straight, from the base of your skull down, in whatever your preferred sleeping position is. If you’re a back sleeper, you’ll want a thinner, softer pillow. Side sleeper, a thicker, firmer pillow. Etc.
And this changes over time, and pillows wear out, so plan on choosing a new one every two or three years if you aren’t comfortable 6 nights out of 7.
Buy two or three modestly-priced pillows of different densities and thicknesses and try them all out for about five days each, in rotation. (Don’t switch any quicker - it takes time to get used to even the “perfect” pillow.) If the one you like isn’t quite good enough, go buy a better model of that thickness and density.
My husband has had multiple spinal surgeries in the last 10 years, 3 this year alone. Earlier this year when we bought a new mattress, the salesguy had him try out a pillow that he fell in love with. To my mind, it was crazy expensive - $100 - but my husband said that since getting it, his hands no longer go numb at night. He’s a side sleeper.
If you’d like, I can check the tag when I get home and PM you the brand, assuming we didn’t pull the tag (under penalty of law!!!)
I bought a memory foam pillow from Lands End about a year ago and like it. But I use it along with a conventional pillow.
Consumer Reports says meh. They weren’t really impressed.
I switch positions when I sleep, and have two pillows, a firm one and a softer one. The former one is memory foam, and i think it’s time to replace it.
Cost isn’t necessarily relevant to comfort - quality, maybe.
I have the usual 50s problems with finding a comfortable sleep position, so I’m a lot more restless and changing in position than I used to be. (A temporarily bum knee and a semi-permanent Dane puppy don’t help.)
I use two pillows, one middling-thick and middling-firm that I can either lay flat when I’m on my back or bunch up when I turn on my side. I have a second, very soft down pillow for either a little more side support or as a puffy warmer/sleep mask for my upper face. The main pillow was about a $20 model and works fine; I beat it up pretty good so I need a new one every couple of years. The soft pillow takes a long time to get just the way I like it, so my last one was about $60 and lasted ten years; current one is just broken in and was well over $100. The construction and fill quality will help them last longer in that ideal condition, but I’d likely never spend more for my base pillow that, middle quality or top-drawer, will wear out faster.
My old soft pillow is in a zipper case under the bed in case I ever need it. Poor old thing.
Well the pillow I saw on Amazon had a high number of 5-star ratings relative to the number of 4-star, 3-star, and 2-star ratings. But you’re right… there are quiet a few 1-star ratings. 
I need to google MyPillow scam as suggested by CIB.
I just looked at a couple of pages on MyPillow and I have to say meh.
As far as I can tell, it’s to be configured once, for one optimal sleeping position. I think most people have at least two positions they alternate between, so a pillow you can’t re-squoosh or turn for different support won’t end up being very comfortable. (I got rid of a fairly expensive shaped memory foam pillow for just that reason.)
So if you’re a one-position sleeper… well, just go buy a good pillow of the right height and firmness, instead of a gimmicky “build your own” thing. This is another example of an unnecessary product being marketed to the laziness and ignorance of a market, like five blade razors and Swiffers.
I bought some of these a few months ago and generally like them. They do need to be adjusted, for me, bunching up a pile of fluff under my neck and leaving a void under my skull. They are not good to just lay down on and sleep; the fill bunches up into very dense mounds. Had I better adjusted my existing pillows to support my neck, that probably would have been an improvement. Still, they keep reasonable cool and, when set up right, provide good support. YmMv.
I’m mostly a side sleeper, and I love my buckwheat hull filled pillow. Sure, it’s a bit like sleeping on a bag full of sand, but I can configure it any way I want, and it will support my head, keeping my spine straight. It does take a bit of getting use to the rustling noise that it makes, but for me, it’s well worth it.
Plus, I’m the automatic winner of any pillow fights. That thing is solid!
I wish I could find a reliably cool pillow that wasn’t forty years old.
Verily, good Sir! Why would I purchase an overpriced factory-made headrest when I can fashion my own cranial cushion at home using copyu pelts from my backyard tannery, stuffed with downy-soft unfertilized eggs from my menagerie of exotic spiders?
Cute as always.
Why buy an overpriced “build your own pillow” kit - with fabric and foam or coypu skins and spider silk - when you can just go buy a pillow of any desired quality, size and shape that meets your loft and density requirements?
Same reason people buy a $6/week razor that’s marginally better with a sloppy shaving technique than a 50-cent blade that takes a little effort to learn to use right.
All they’re selling is a second-rate way to make a pillow adjustable, and I can think of few more useless things given that the RIGHT non-adjustable pillow is what everyone actually needs. The myth of false convenience, but by gum, order one for all the kids, Martha.
Myself and the wife have had ours for about 5 years. We like them a lot. They by no means are they going to cure all the ailments they claim to, it’s just a pillow for god’s sake, but they keep their shape nicely. The filling does push to the top over a few nights but then you just flip the thing over.
They’re machine washable also, built well, and fluff up like new out of the dryer. Probably why we’ve had them so long.
Again, it’s not some miracle pillow that’s going to cure your neck/back pain and insomnia. I just think it’s a well built pillow that’s worth the money since you don’t have to replace it every year.
The “buy one get one” is a never ending promo they run so your looking at a $50 pillow.
Tip: Flip it over.
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A while back, I admired the phrase in a book “he was as cool as the other side of the pillow.” Loved it.
My company does business with My Pillow so I got a super cheap deal on one. It was okay. I wouldn’t have bought it at full price though.