Please help me find a pillow

[Lazydaisy991]

I need a pillow that doesn't hurt my neck.
I've tried all sorts, don't like memory foam, the ones with the curve for your neck, buckwheat which was like a bag of sand.
I want a pillow that isn't too soft that it collapses with the weight of my head but isn't like a brick. I don't want a chemical smell when I open it.
Can anyone recommend one?

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No but following to see the replies, I've been looking for new ones online but they all have mixed reviews do stuck on which ones to get. My neck hurts too 😩

I have read so many reviews too! I know everyone is different but I'm getting desperate now

Well, I have wool fill pillows and I adore them. You can buy extra filling so you can just add or remove some to suit.

I will say that the first few nights I thought I'd made an expensive mistake. But they settled down and as long as I plump them every so often, they're brilliant.

When we bought our Tempur mattress we were given 2 ‘free’ Tempur pillows.
They would be hideously expensive to buy as a stand alone - think £150 ouch! - but omg this is the only pillow I have found properly comfortable in my life.
I would bite the bullet and pay for a replacement as it’s that good.
If possible, go into a bed shop and try out the pillow. If you hate it, it’s an awful lot of money but for a comfortable pillow and a good night’s sleep it’s brilliant.

I tried loads of pillows, until I tried Tempura. Pricey but well worth it!!

I went to a bed showroom and tried out a few.

@ParisGellerFTW when you fill up with wool does it become lumpy?

Not really, no. If you don't open them up and fluff the wool it will clump. I just do it when I change the bed.

I got the tempur pillows too and I don't like them. Have tried several times but they are too firm for me

@CeffylCoch is it like a block kind of pillow?

Latex pillows

Bamboo pillows are great

Yes is that what you have?

Just bought these soft pillows today from Dunelm. They categorise them into soft, medium and firm which I liked. Will let you know how I get on

I have recently bought a couple of latex and wool ones from The Wool Room. For me they were not too soft nor too firm.

I am a fan of square pillows (Soak & Sleep certainly used to sell wool, silk and feather ones).

Quite by accident, I fell asleep with a V-shaped pillow a few weeks ago, which I bought because I like to read in bed and am fed up with dislodging the fitted sheet/topper. It's a cheap IKEA one, but it's weirdly fab if you sleep on your side or front.

Your face supports your head and your neck doesn't get caught in a draught.

Are you a back sleeper or a side sleeper OP? That will help determine the best sort of pillow for you.

I like to go to Dunelm. They have samples of all their pillows on display.

I'm a side sleeper @SeatonCarew
I'm currently on a microfibre homestore and more pillow.
I'm in Ireland so no Dunelm to try them out and unless I'm snuggled up under the covers I can never tell if it's the right one, feels great in the shop.

Side sleeper here. I find a John Lewis feather pillow best, and I sort of fold/scrunch it to get the right level of firmness.

I’ve also fallen asleep with my head on my pregnancy pillow and that worked very nicely!

I have silk pillows that I really like. I’ve had them maybe 3-4 years and are still very comfortable. Other pillows I’ve had seem to become flat very quickly.

silk pillows

Dunlopillo (now Relyon) are the best pillows in the world. Eye-watering expensive but last forever!

https://www.next.co.uk/style/st896787/m47608

i like these and not so expensive that I feel they’re irreplaceable if they start to go. They haven’t yet though and it must have bean a year or so.

I bought Tielle pillows after having a really comfy night at the Pig, went fishing through the pillow case to find the label. https://tielleloveluxury.co.uk/collections/pillows?page=2

Edit- I have the “Savoy Duck Feather and Down Pillow”

Panda London hybrid bamboo pillow. Even better than my husbands dunlopillo pillow.

I'm surprised not to have reas any recommendations for premier inn pillows. The firm pillows are excellent and last a long time.