I've searched and didn't find a thread for this specific type of pillow. I'm looking at recommendations in old threads but hope there is more specific advice. What says the Forum?

Good luck. It's a lot of trial and error for me. I need a pillow slightly firm and pretty flat. Most new ones are too poofy and squishy.

I saw this the other day. Sometimes I wake up and my arm is numb from sleeping on it. I thought it looked interesting.
https://www.medcline.com/produ...Reflux-Relief-System

That's...something. I'm hoping for something less involved.

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Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:
Most new ones are too poofy and squishy.

This is what I have experienced too. Bought and took back nearly every pillow available from Bed, Bath, and Beyond. None of them worked. Still using my same old broken down, worn out pillow and it's like hell trying to find a replacement .

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Originally posted by mutedblade:

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Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:
Most new ones are too poofy and squishy.

This is what I have experienced too. Bought and took back nearly every pillow available from Bed, Bath, and Beyond. None of them worked. Still using my same old broken down, worn out pillow and it's like hell trying to find a replacement .

Have you considered taking some of the fill out of a new pillow? With goose down, at least, my older pillows were once as full and fluffy as my newer ones; just took a long time to wear them down. Taking out some fill might hasten the process.

I use 2 fairly thin memory foam pillows. I can create a comfortable support under my shoulder and a neck bolster. Works quite well.

Try a Biosense pillow. Just be sure to select the right version: stomach, back or side sleeper.

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I was a belly sleeper all my life. Unfortunately, the condition of my C-spine makes it difficult to fall asleep on my stomach because my neck starts hurting from being turned 90*. I still wake up on my belly, those nights when my neck is pretty good. The only pillow that has ever really worked for me is a high quality down/feather core pillow. It also works fine for side if I jam it under my head to line it up with my spine, or my back, if I pull it down to my shoulders. Good ones can cost $100, but Ithink it’s worth it. Mine is due to be replaced.

I have a Tempurpedic that I like. Thinner but semi firm. This one I think. https://www.tempurpedic.com/sh...support-pillow/v/13/ Though I sleep on my side with arm under.

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Originally posted by scratchy:
I use 2 fairly thin memory foam pillows. I can create a comfortable support under my shoulder and a neck bolster. Works quite well.

I sleep a little differently, but use two pillows in a similar manner.

Two foam pillows is the best combination I've ever had. Mine are made by Abripedic. I don't even recall where they came from, some ex probably picked them up at Costco or one of the typical stores. But for me they're the perfect combo of supportive and squishy / malleable. I can sleep facing up, down, on either side, I just mash them around until I get what I want.

I tell ya, this is exactly how I sleep and I have had luck with 1 normal relatively flat pillow on the bottom with a thinner style memory foam pillow on top and oriented up and non rather than left to right. I find when I travel and don't have this set up, my sleep is much worse.

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Originally posted by TMats:
I was a belly sleeper all my life. Unfortunately, the condition of my C-spine makes it difficult to fall asleep on my stomach because my neck starts hurting from being turned 90*. I still wake up on my belly, those nights when my neck is pretty good. The only pillow that has ever really worked for me is a high quality down/feather core pillow. It also works fine for side if I jam it under my head to line it up with my spine, or my back, if I pull it down to my shoulders. Good ones can cost $100, but Ithink it’s worth it. Mine is due to be replaced.

You know those face pillow things built into massage tables, where you can lay face down and still breathe because the pillow has a hole in the middle for you to breathe through?

I use two foam pillows in basically a V shape to effectively create the same sort of face pillow. It didn't work well until I got these particular foam pillows, because you need ones with the right malleability yet firmness so that it doesn't collapse and restrict breathing.

My system works fine, I even sort of subconsciously arrange it all nowadays without much thought. But before that what I had entertained was basically making a more U or V shaped pillow by cutting up a regular pillow and and sewing a pillowcase to help. It's much like one of those neck pillows people take on planes or road trips, but firmer. Works for me, and when I end up sleeping on my stomachs the angle of my neck is more like 5* or so.

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Originally posted by 46and2:
I use two foam pillows in basically a V shape to effectively create the same sort of face pillow. It didn't work well until I got these particular foam pillows, because you need ones with the right malleability yet firmness so that it doesn't collapse and restrict breathing

Sounds like it’s worth considering. Thanks

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Originally posted by Dakor:
Try a Biosense pillow. Just be sure to select the right version: stomach, back or side sleeper.

That looks very interesting. I may try one out. Thanks