Sleep Innovations Memory Foam Contour Pillow, Standard Size, Head, Neck, and Shoulder Alignment, Side and Back Sleepers, Medium Support

I've had this pillow for a little over a month now and I love it! Finally a relief from the neck and shoulder pain...First thing I noticed was the smell. But thanks to others' comments, I let it sit in my basement for 2 days and the smell is gone. I did remove the cover and wash it while the pillow was airing. Also put the pillow on a rack and turned it once a day to get the best airflow around it.Second thing was it was hard and cold when I first put my head on it. Well, this didn't feel promising! However, within just a few minutes the pillow had warmed to a comfortable temperature and had molded to my head and neck.Third was I slept the best I had in months and had no shoulder or neck pain the next morning. Hmm. Maybe we're on to something here...It's been several weeks now. The smell is gone - has been since I let it air.Every night I notice the hardness but am always comforted in the knowledge in a few seconds it will be perfect. I have also noticed that when I roll over or change position on the pillow, where ever I move my head, the pillow is already the right temperature to cradle head and neck comfortably. I tend to change sides and occasionally sleep on my back. With each change, the pillow is still comfortable.I have also noticed the pillow stays a comfortable temperature. Even when I am hot, it stays cool. But if I am cold, it is comfortably warm. It is magically a comfortable temperature. A note here - I do use a regular pillow case over its own cover - this so it matches my sheets. Also, I can change the regular case on a regular basis to keep things cleaner.No neck or shoulder pain since the first night. I've also noticed - sometimes I tend to sleep with my arms under my head under the pillow. The pillow conforms to the lumps of my hands and/or arms and remains very supportive and comfortable. Should I pull my arms out, the pillow quickly re-conforms to best support. I've also noticed that my arms/hands do not get too hot under the pillow.I live with the constant pain and uncomfortableness of Fibromyalgia. A good share of my pain is neck, upper back and shoulder, but the rest of my body joins in as well. With this pillow I have noticed a marked decrease in daily pain in those areas. And, with the more restful sleep, the rest of my pain and stiffness is much decreased. Amazing what a huge difference in my health and well-being!The one thing I've been wondering is why did I wait so long to buy this pillow? Well, no matter! I have it now and will never go back to a regular pillow again! I'm so stuck on this pillow that, with an out of town trip coming up soon, I've changed plans on luggage so I can take my pillow with me!Thank you to all of you that wrote informative reviews. They helped me decide on this pillow over several others. And, they were right. I am very pleased with this purchase!

I'm a side sleeper mostly, and occasionally sleep on my back. I don't sleep on my stomach. My neck has always bothered me off and on, but the pain got so bad six months ago that sometimes I could not even sleep, and normal activities like washing my hair or turning my head was agony. I'm a busy person and tried to suck it up, but it was too incapacitating to ignore.I was skeptical this pillow would do me any good, and I only tried it because I was desperate, but I'm so glad I did. My neck was killing me so badly that I thought my normal life might be over. But out of everything I tried (and I tried nearly everything) this pillow and one other thing (which I shall describe below) made me a normal person again.When I first got the pillow and took it out of the plastic bag it comes in, it did have some slight "outgassing" going on, which was noticeable but not overpowering. Ideally, I would suggest letting it sit out for a couple days/weeks if you can before you use it. But my pain was too immediate to wait, so I used it right away. At first, I would sleep on the edge of it to keep the oder away from my nose. I'm extremely sensitive to smells, but it got better over time, and after a few weeks it went away entirely as far as I could tell, and it's a none-issue for me now.It takes a bit of time to get used to this pillow. It's like when you get a new cellphone. It will seem weird and unfamiliar at first, but eventually you are so comfortable with it you can't remember the other.And you will never get it to fit your pillowcase perfectly. Don't get me wrong, you can use normal pillowcases just fine (I use Queen and King sized ones as that is what I have) but it will never be like a fluffy marshmallow pillow, as the filling is not shaped that way.You might think: these things don't sound great, why would I want this pillow? But wait, here's the thing -- it works! It saved my neck. At least it did for me and two relatives of mine who also found the same relief. It keeps my neck from getting wonky, and it helps me sleep when it is acting up. Sometimes l go to sleep a bit worried because my neck is starting to hurt, and after a restful night on this pillow, I wake up and it feels fine.A tip to remember is to flip the pillow occasionally if it starts to feel like it's not supporting your head properly.The other thing I tried that seems to really help is that whenever it is possible, I put my laptop on a box which brings it to my eye level (so I'm not looking down but straight ahead) and I've attached an inexpensive mouse and keyboard to the laptop. This makes it more like a desktop. Occasionally I get lazy or rebellious and I don't do it, and it doesn't take very long before my neck starts to pay the price.I give that tip five stars as well. And while this pillow is not perfect, as it has literally saved my neck and given me my life back, I gladly give it five stars. It's also given me a deeper sleep than I used to have. It's worth a try and I hope that it helps others, as it's very difficult to enjoy life when it's a pain in the neck.

I was very hesitant to buy a pillow online. I buy a lot of pillows; I keep 6 on my bed alone and like to have some in the guest room and living room too. The last pillow I bought I hand picked out at a major retailer. It felt good in my hands but was terrible to sleep on. Since I picked it up in person I was a bit scared to order one online. I had heard good things about `Sleep Innovations' and also read the great reviews prior to buying which made me feel more comfortable. I had a contour pillow about 15 some years ago so I was not expecting much from this pillow. I thought if it was not comfortable I at least had a new terry pillowcase which I justified by buying it. When I received it I was very happy with the packaging. It was well sealed in a plastic bag. You do not have to worry about warehouse hands literally handling it. I read about the odor but I did not have that issue. I did not use it for a few hours though since I received it in the morning. I did place another pillowcase over it to match my sheets. I will note the pillow is smaller than a standard pillow. I placed it on my bed and when my head first went down I thought I was going to have a hard time with it but within minutes I was so happy! My head formed a shape to the pillow and it was so comfortable! I primarily sleep on my side and stomach and it is a dream! The last few nights I have slept on it I do not want to get up it is so comfortable! For the price it is `priceless' when you get even one good nights sleep.I want to add I have a lot of back pain lately. I recently had a child and am still recovering from the c section and being a single parent I am lugging the high chair, play yard, car seat, baby, all of it which is an average of 20 lbs. if not more. I would wake up every morning with back pains. Since having the pillow my back pain has not been as high. I do contribute it to the pillow and my neck/spine.For the side and stomach sleepers this pillow is a must. I am so impressed and would highly recommend it.

Starting off with a 3 star review (I will come back to update my review). The smell that others have mentioned is very real, and quite nasty, very chemical in nature. Given that making memory foam is actually a chemical process anyway, and I read the other reviews before purchasing I was expecting this. When the package arrived I placed my head on a pillow through its original plastic packaging and was in immediate blissful heaven. The feel of these pillows appeals to my particular preferences. I then removed the pillow from its package, from a couple feet away (roughly arms length of a 6 ft male) I didn't smell anything so it wasn't all encompassing in a room. When I put my nose next to it and smelled it was however extremely noticeable at that point. I received Sunday Feb 1st(Sunday delivery, was strange but welcome) and I've allowed the pillows to rest in an empty room out of there packaging until today Friday Feb 6th(2015 for reference). So far the smell has not completely dissipated, I've also turned the pillows over several times to allow for better airflow on all sides.So far the thing I've experienced most is the smell, however the memory of the FEEL of the pillow is wonderful.Would I recommend? From my personal experience so far; if you want a pillow for immediate use I would not recommend this pillow. However memory foam is made from chemicals and I would expect them to need to air out(note: I ordered memory foam pillows from a different company at the same time, which arrived afterwards and are completely smell free already; this could be from several factors though(Maybe open longer in factory before packaged? Maybe not as dense, so many factors...) so please keep that in mind). Are you looking for a semi-firm pillow that will likely feel amazing while sleeping? Then FROM MY INITIAL FEEL I would indeed recommend this product!This is again reviewed as-is because I've not yet put them to a nights use as they are airing out, but I'm allowing them to air out completely and will update this review to include impressions after proper usage, but I do expect great things from this pillow. I will also update my star reviews at that time, as you've read above so far my initial impressions are mixed but I want to give it a fair chance, hence midway on the stars.Update: 2/13/2015: SO, the night of the initial review I decided the smell was low enough to tolerate. So far my initial impressions have proven true to MY preferences. This is exactly what I expect in a memory foam pillow. A unique but quite comfortable feel when I lay my head on the pillow. This pillow does bounce back immediately and contours to my head exactly as >I THINK< the advertisement promises.Have I met better pillows? Yes, I've come across other pillows that my particular preferences prefer. HOWEVER, I ordered this pillow for this exact feel and it has delivered as promised. I sleep with multiple pillows out of preference, even with memory foam! This isn't my TOP pillow, but its absolutely perfect for my lower layer, and when I feel like getting my head lower at night occasionally I am perfectly comfortable removing my top pillow and enjoying the comfort that this pillow offers. Would I recommend this to other people? Yep, I added another star to my review for this reason, it is what I expected in this type of pillow and delivered what I perceived the description to be. This is a review after (almost) 7 days in use. I will update in a couple months after more vigorous use.

Like many others, I first became acquainted with the Sleep Innovations Memory Foam pillow when they were being sold at Costco several years ago. I love that pillow. It's excellent. It's heavy, dense, not too soft and not too firm and provides excellent memory foam support. I don't know what this awful product being sold now is, but I can tell you after buying two, and quickly returning them both, this is not the same thing I got at Costco years ago. This feels like the cheap, made-in-China knockoff version of my original Sleep Innovations pillow. Seriously. It weighs about 1/3 as much as the original pillows, and feels more like styrofoam than memory foam. The crazy light weight makes it feel super cheap, but that would not be a huge issue if the pillow was comfortable--unfortunately it's not. And I really don't think this is an opinion issue here, it's more of a fact. Unless memory foam is now suppose to feel like hard cardboard, there's something funny going on with these pillows. When you lay on it, there is no give at all. The whole point of memory foam is to contour around the shape of your body, this pillow just stays stiff. At first I thought maybe it was just cold. Cold memory foam is very stiff but when it warms up to normal temperatures it starts to have some give again. This pillow never warms up--at any temperature. I tried to sleep on it for two nights, the first night I suffered through hoping it would get better--it didn't, the second night I finally threw it on the floor and reached for my old Sleep Innovations memory foam pillow. The next day I started the return process. Frustrating. I would have expected as much had I tried a different brand of pillow, but I thought I'd be safe sticking with the same brand product. My mistake.Clearly these guys changed their manufacturing specs. If you read through the reviews on Amazon all of the positive reviews are from several years ago, and all of the recent reviews are horrible. I should have ready more carefully to figure that out. Regardless, whatever they changed, maybe they are saving a bunch of money by making them super light and super stiff, but it's not the same product it was, it doesn't feel like memory foam at all, and I can almost guarantee that unless you're looking for a block of styrofoam to sleep on, you won't like this new version of their pillow.

I have to agree with other reviewers and state up-front that this pillow took almost a full two weeks before it didn't smell like a chemical factory. Then it took another two weeks before the smell was fully gone. If the shape of this item appeals to you then you may want to plan to let it sit unused for at least two weeks before you use it. The company also may want to consider poking some air holes in the plastic that wraps the pillow so that it can do some of the outgassing while it is in shipment.Having said all that I'm very happy with this item. I've been looking a long time for a pillow that will properly support my jaw. I have problems with tooth grinding and when i sleep on this pillow that problem is minimized. Sadly the foam is starting to get flattened already. I assumed with a memory foam it would not flatten out like other standard pillows but that is not the case.Overall it partially solves a problem of mine so I'm pretty happy. I took off two stars for the initial odor and the fact that it is starting to flatten out after only about 2 months of use.

This is my second one. I got my first one from Fred Meyer and used it for over 10 years. Love it! I'm a side sleeper and it helps reduce with my neck and shoulders pain. I have used traditional pillow and they usually don't support my head very well and I used to wake up with neck pain.

I am a stomach sleeper, but recently it's been causing me to have neck, shoulder, and jaw pain. I decided to make the switch to sleeping on my back (and sometimes side) and that helped, but I was really missing proper neck support (left some problems lingering) so I decided to buy this pillow. I've seen many mention a chemical smell.. but I can't comment on that since I have no sense of smell. If you're used to having soft pillows, this one might seem "hard as a rock," but I'm used to soft pillows and I love this one. I don't mind the pillow case that comes with it. Sleeping on my back was so difficult, but this pillow has made it very easy.The only problem I have with it is that I'm somewhat small (5'3", 100 or so pounds) so the pillow is maybe a bit high causing strain on my shoulders, but I can fix that pretty easy by putting a pillow under my back. Overall, I'd suggest this pillow to anyone who thinks they could benefit from it.Edit: 02/18/14: I thought I would add that I bought the standard sized pillow and it's the size of a normal pillow. It makes sense, but that was something I wondered about when I bought it. Especially because similar pillows are so much more costly for the regular sized pillows. Also, I've been using it for a few more days now and you really do get used to it in time. I went a night barely using it because I couldn't get comfy with it but then I made myself stick with it & it's gotten better. Every day my problems get a little better and now it's hard to sleep without a pillow as this one keeps me from reverting to my usual stomach sleeping position.Edit: 09/10/15: I really wanted to update my review to say that a year and a half later and I still use this pillow every night. If I travel, it goes with me. If I sleep without it, I don't wake up as rested and I also tend to wake up with pain when I don't use it. The shape has held up over time. The $17 I spent on this pillow was worth it without a doubt!! All the pain I used to suffer through doesn't faze me anymore as long as I sleep on my back or side using this pillow. It's truly amazing.

Oreiller très confortable pour nuque et cervicales sensibles, à la bonne hauteur, et pas trop dur, ni trop soft, la densité de la mousse est bien équilibrée. Je recommande.

Llegó a tiempo, bien empaquetada Para mi fue muy fácil adaptarme a ella, cómoda, fresca, ya no amanezco con dolor de cuello o de cabeza que solía suceder con otras almohadas No es rígida se adapta a tu cabeza y cuello, la funda muy suave al tacto Sí la recomiendo!

I can't believe I almost didn't open the pillow when it arrived so I could return it. It was so hard I couldn't imagine how it could soften to a normal level but I re-read some of the reviews and decided to give it a go.I am so happy I did because this is turning out to be the best pillow I ever had. I used a similar pillow for about 6 years before so it only took me about 5 minutes to get used to this one. It feels really hard when you first lie down but then starts to soften progressively. In the morning after the first night it was all nice and soft and then it regained most of its hardness and shape during the day.I sleep like a baby on it, I have had it for about 10 days and I am really happy with it.What I love most about it is that you get comfortable right away, you don't need to fix it up or anything.Definitely a great buy.

Hace poco me operaron de Hernias discales en las cervicales y por el dolor me era difícil dormir con almohadas comunes por lo tanto me tuve que buscar almohadas especiales. Al encontrar esta almohada estaba un poco escéptico pero para mi grata sorpresa me ayudo mucho con los dolores de cuello y ahora ya no sufro para poder dormir. Llevo 4 meses usandola y estoy muy contento. Un detalle que le encuentro es que me ha dado la sensación que con el tiempo se ha vuelto un poco mas suave de lo normal y no se si para el soporte del cuello sea muy bueno pero por lo pronto no me molesta. En lo general es una almohada que recomiendo mucho.

Great pillow, maybe the best I've had (this is my first memory foam one). The low side is perfect for lying on your back, the high side is pretty good for lying on your side. My only complaint is that if you do both, you either have to flip the pillow around when you switch from your back to your side (I've been doing this), or your head's too high lying on your back or too low lying on your side. Both sides can do both orientations acceptably, and the small side works for side sleeping if you put your arm under the pillow to boost it up, but it's not ideal. If you're just one or the other, and especially if you're just a back sleeper, though, it's great. It feels buoyant, and isn't hot.