to be specific, “contour plush, queen.” $129 (-> $134 and change w tax)
I sleep on my side and on my stomach, and have had standard pillows all my life. I have noticed that I always place my hand beneath the pillow, or on top of the damn thing with my face cradled in the palm of my hand. Why? The regular pillow seems to sag so there’s less than an inch of thickness between my head and the mattress. Maybe I use my hand to to elevate my head so that my neck is more in a straight line.
I just tried my new pillow and though it’s soft, it doesn’t give anywhere near what my old pillow did. I think I can grow to like this thing.
However, I’ve heard that Tempur-Pedics go flat - lose all their resiliency - when exposed to high temps. Anyone know about this?
but I got a little nervous with the site’s punctuation. Example
The SupremePillow by Tempur-Pedic� Contour Plush This peculiar construction occurs a couple three times at the site.
Putting the ? after the mfr name seemed to me that they might be selling a knockoff. So I went to the Brookstone store at the local mall, to see what was going on. Nothing, apparently, so I bought it. Same price, so instead of shipping (unless it’s free at the website) I paid CT state tax.
Anyone else like/don’t like these pillows?
I have no financial interest whatever in Brookstone or Tempur-Pedics.
I’ve had it for several years and I haven’t experienced any loss of resiliency per se. When your body heat warms the pillow, it conforms to your shape. I don’t have any problems with having my breathing obstructed or feeling like I’m sinking in, but it does kind of “mold” to you. That said, I live in a cold/cool climate, so it’s only my body heat warming up the foam.
Your pillow cost more than my new mattress. I get my pillows the old fashioned way- wait for relatives to move into retirement homes and empty their linen closets.
I had one of those for a few years. Hubby was jealous so we bought him a generic memory foam pillow at Sam’s Club that was shaped like a regular pillow. I liked it so much better than the expensive one that I stole it from him, and we went and bought another one. The $100 pillow now resides under the bed.
And we also have a generic memory foam mattress pad. That is the best $125 we ever spent!
I got a generic one for about $45 on Amazon about 18 months ago. I blanched at the cost, coming from the plot school of home furnishing, but it was recommended by the doctor I saw after I woke up unable to move from a crick in my neck*. I’ve had better sleep, not perfect but better, and very little pain or stiffness in my neck and shoulders in the last year. The hard part is keeping my guy’s greasy head off my pillow.
I am a side/belly sleeper, but I actually fall asleep on my back occasionally since I got the faka-pedic pillow, as opposed to never-ever since I was a kid.
*She was an osteopath- I just happened to go to the office when she was the one on duty. I’d never been to a D.O. before, only MDs and Nurse practitioners. When I went in I was petrified that I’d need muscle relaxers or something (hate taking drugs, and I needed to be at peak functionality for the last 6 weeks of my degree), but she just had me press my head against her hand and the pain stretched away. She was awesome. I meant to send her a thank-you note, but I forgot her name.
I have a decent quality “memory foam” pillow – same technology and density as a T-P but much cheaper – that I’ve had for, let’s see, six years now, five of which were in Austin. Temperatures in the bedroom regularly topped 90 F and stayed that way for hours (crappy window AC used only at night). No loss of resiliency noted whatsoever.
I suspect they were trying to put a TM or (C) symbol beside Tempur-Pedic, but in your particular font it came out as a ?. There are specific HTML codes for copyright and tradmark symbols.
I’ve had a $60 generic memory foam pillow since August 2002 (my one luxury when I set up my first post-college apartment), and I do think it’s broken down a little bit since then, although not enough to make it uncomfortable. It’s just not quite as luxurious-feeling as it was back then. I never exposed it to any particularly high heat beyond what might be in a stuffy room before the building turned on the AC in the late spring. Also, within the first year, the actual foam stuff went from a creamy pale yellow to a dull orange color, which to me does imply some sort of chemical change.
No cite, but I think that’s just simple oxidation on the surface. Since memory foam is closed cell, that oxidation may not affect anything but cosmetics. Anyone else know more about it?