Body Pillows

This review is from: Pike Street Micro Bead Therapy Pillow with Cover (Kitchen)

I’ve now slept on this pillow for 2 wonderful nights. It’s soft and cradles your head and neck. I haven’t slept with it with the provided cover – though it’s very soft, too. I think the cover constricts the movement of the beads, so it doesn’t conform to your head and neck and feels hard. But for $30 I’m highly pleased with this pillow. I’ll keep you posted about how it holds up and how it feels down the road.
–Two weeks later– still love the pillow – put a loose fitting regular pillow case on it to protect it.
–Three Months Later– still my favorite pillow purchase, may be a moot point, since Amazon does not seem inclinded to carry it any longer. I don’t wake up with neck pain with this pillow – and I have lingering whiplash injuries (bulging discs).
–10 months later and final review. Still sleep with this pillow in a regular case. It’s the still the best, though the long channel of microbeads has gotten less fluffy over time. I would still buy it again even if I had to buy one a year.

This review is from: Pike Street Micro Bead Therapy Pillow with Cover (Kitchen)

I purchased this pillow about a year ago and have been well pleased with it. I just purchased a new one for my mother. Since the beads are displaced by the weight of your head, it is a very comfortable pillow, not having any hard spots, and it is cool.

As has been mentioned by others, I found the pillow a little to firm with the supplied cover so I just used a normal pillow cover. After a couple of months the pillow started to get less firm, so I put the supplied cover on and it firmed right back up.

The beads in the pillow sort of work like water would. When you lay your head on it, the beads are displaced by the weight of your head and that weight is distributed on the internal pillow case. So the pillow case ends up determining the firmness of the pillow. Over time it stretches so the pillow becomes less firm since the beads have a bigger pillow case to fill.

After a couple more months of using the supplied pillow cover the pillow was not very firm again as the pillow cover had stretched. So I rolled up the end of the supplied pillow cover and pinned it with safety pins (being carefull not to pin the internal pillow case as the beads would probably come out the pin hole) and put the whole thing in a normal pillow cover. This has worked well. Every now and then I have to roll-up the cover a little more, but this method allows me to adjust the firmness to whatever I like. So the extra messing around has its advantages.

I may stretch the pillow case a little more than others since I tend to set up in bed to read and lean against the pillow with my upper body weight, but I doubt that anyone would get much more than a year out of the pillow without doing something to keep the pillow from stretching.

This review is from: Pike Street Micro Bead Therapy Pillow with Cover (Kitchen)

We bought this pillow for our daughter who was experiencing neck and shoulder pain in the mornings. After just a day or two of using this pillow the pain and shoulder strain were greatly reduced. After a few weeks, the pain is gone.

These microbead pillows are great for people who need neck support while they sleep. I highly recommend them if you have this problem.

This review is from: Pike Street Micro Bead Therapy Pillow with Cover (Kitchen)

This pillow can be great if only it had twice as much “fluff” than it already has. I get pain in my shoulders and i’ve noticed that much of it stems from my pillow (effecting how i sleep). While this pillow helped, I find my head sinks nearly flush with the bed after sleeping on it too long (no good). I’m piling it on top of one of my older pillows now for added cushion and now i’m sleeping pretty.

This review is from: Pike Street Micro Bead Therapy Pillow with Cover (Kitchen)

This pillow is really comfortable. I have had it for about two months, and I really like the supportive feel.

But… BEWARE! The microbead filling keeps falling out through the pillow seams. The little beads are so small that they are seeping through the holes where the pillow is stitched together and they are all over everything! I have repaired two holes in the seams already trying to keep the little buggers contained in the pillow, but it’s no use. I am going to be forced to throw this pillow away. I’m tired of getting out the vacuum cleaner to pick up after my pillow every morning.

This review is from: Pike Street Micro Bead Therapy Pillow with Cover (Kitchen)

This pillow is not soft and it feels like a bag of sand, but it does adapt to the shape of the body so I sleep comfortably. The pillow has two drawbacks. First of all, the stitches are not well done so the beads are leaking. (This is not a big problem for me since I always keep the pillow in the cover that came with the pillow and the cover doesn’t leak anything.) Secondly, the pillow smells very badly, and the smell persists for weeks, so I couldn’t use it right away.

This review is from: Pike Street Micro Bead Therapy Pillow with Cover (Kitchen)

I bought one of these for myself and my husband for Christmas. After a mix up with the order and waiting forever to get them we only used them maybe a month off and on. They were to firm and hard and made our necks hurt worse because they were so high. Some reviews said you had to give it time to get use to the difference, but I found myself reaching for my “old” pillow in the middle of the night and using this one between my knees. I even tried taking the pillow case it comes with off and using a standard pillow case…what a mess, I ended up with beads throughout the bed. My husband who likes a firmer pillow could not use it either and now both are in a spare drawer in storage.

This review is from: Pike Street Micro Bead Therapy Pillow with Cover (Kitchen)

I’ve tried so many different kinds of pillows (memory foam, gussetted, buck wheat) searching for a comfortable night of sleep. I’ve even tried some of the smaller microbead pillows, but they were not full enough. For me, I would like this to be just a bit fuller (thus the rating; however, my neck has never been happier as it has been with this pillow. I was ready to try buying a more expensive microbead pillow, but I decided, for the price, I would give this one a try first. I’m really glad I did because I will be keeping it.

This review is from: Pike Street Micro Bead Therapy Pillow with Cover (Kitchen)

Having two micro bead neck pillows, I knew that someone must make a micro bead pillow that was bed-size. My search began in stores over a year ago; finding none, I went online and found this one on amazon.com. I love it and give it the highest possible recommendation for neck support and overall sleeping comfort. The cover that came with the pillow holds the beads too tightly together for my body type, so I use a regular pillow case. I’m sure I’ll find another use for the cover.

This review is from: Pike Street Micro Bead Therapy Pillow with Cover (Kitchen)

I suffered terrible whiplash back in 1997 in an auto accident and have struggled for years with neck pain. After much searching I found the most relief I have ever felt. I began sleeping with a horse-shoe-shaped neck roll filled with bean-bag-chair-like stuffing purchased in an airport gift shop.

When I spotted this pillow it seemed to be made out of basically the same materials… so I ordered it. I admit I was quite the skeptic… So when I received this I hung onto the packaging; “just in case”… one month turned into 2, then 3… I threw the packaging away …

You may have noticed that this was a 1 star review so here goes… I purchased this pillow in May of 2009… I am writing this review in October of 2009. I have had this pillow for only 5 short months and already it is worn out! It flattens when I place it under my neck and I wake up all night long chasing it around my bed. I am going back to the $12 neck roll from the airport! Don’t waste your money… I did!!