I have just replaced my pillow. First time in over 5 years.
JCPenney is having this great Home Sale, and I got it for 5.99 – a bargain, yes?
No. :dubious:
Every morning since starting to use it, I’ve awoken with a terrible lower back pain. The pillow is expressly for back and side sleepers (I normally sleep on my side, or my other side, rarely my back, and never my stomach).
It is, according to the packaging, “Overfilled with hypoallergenic 100% polyester fiber.”
It carries a rating (?) of “Firm.”
Help me find a new pillow? Please?
Find a Scandia Down store and buy a goose down pillow. You won’t get it for $5.99 or even $59.99, but they’re great.
I’m not sure if they make it anymore, but I’m a side sleeper and very pleased with my Martha Stewart pillow. It’s labeled “Extra-Firm support for the side sleeper: custom-sleep pillow,” and I got it on sale at Kmart for something like six or seven dollars last summer. My neck doesn’t hurt when I wake up in the morning now. 
I suggest you go with two firm pillows, one above the other… if possible, just stick the one you just replaced under the one you’ve just bought.
Also, where you sleep doesn’t depend on what position you fall asleep in… what position do you wake up in? You may be a front or back sleeper and not even know it.
I always wake up on one side or the other.
I have one of those Sobakawa pillows–you know, filled with buckwheat hulls?
I like it pretty well. Problem is, the buckwheat somehow makes pillowcases really dirty and brown, so if you get one, you’ll want to sew up a new, scrap case for it and change and wash pillowcases frequently.
I also use a buckwheat pillow, placed on top of a regular firm pillow for enough height and neck support. I love it. I wish I had a bigger one, actually; the one drawback I’ve discovered is that it’s really too small for regular pillowcases.
I stopped using pillows years ago!
My back feels much better, too.
I’m a side sleeper. Very firm pillow for me. My wife is a back and stomach sleeper. Feather pillow for her.
I like flat thin pillows. Even then, I only use a corner of it. I actually love it with no pillow.
It weirds me out to see people with 2 or 3 pillows piled up to sleep on.
another side sleeper here.
i went through almost half a dozen pillows in the last few years, trying to find one i was satisfied with.
down was too squishy. reguluar solid foam was too hot and uncomfortable during the summer.
various molded foam, anti-snore pillows never seemed quite right. i was starting to wake up with a crick in my neck after a while. (my husband has an anti-snore pillow that i got while visiting my aunt in Cleveland. she said it was fabulous, and i do like it myself. but my desire to hang on to my sanity and ability to sleep at night kept me from confiscating his pillow. i’d been trying to find its twin locally ever since.)
i’d seen those new, pressure/heat responsive mattress pads and pillows advertised in catalogs. they sounded intriguing, but i wasn’t about to pay what seemed like an exorbitant price for one lousy pillow. i happened to wander into Hecht’s (i think) while they were having a white sale. they had these same type pillows, on sale for a price i wouldn’t choke on. (around $50-60 – nearly 1/2 off).
i picked up an extra deep one (about 5 inches thick, instead of the regular 4. it’s also sometimes labeled as being for tall/big people.) it’s perhaps a tad TOO thick when i’m laying on my back… but boy, is it comfy when i roll onto my side. zzzzzzz