Ughhh… pillows! I have been through dozens and dozens and still not found the “right” pillow. And what is the right pillow, anyway? I’ve come to accept pillows are a truly subjective experience. What works for your beautifully, shapely neck may not be best for my obnoxiously long brontosaurus neck. For that reason, as I write this MyPillow review, I’ll try not to make it exclusively a My Pillow Review… as in, I’ll try my best to objectively separate my personal experiences from what I think about the pillow.

For starters, this was a gift from my dad, which is hilarious and amazing. Ok, I said not personal, but just needed to add that in.

MyPillow (MyPillow.com) advertises their pillow as “The World’s Most Comfortable Pillow”, but how does it really stack up? For starters, it’s important to make sure you’re buying the correct size. MyPillow has a size chart on their website where they use your — get this — t-shirt size to determine which size pillow works best for you. I’m not sure that’s exactly scientific, but people swear up and down the correct size makes a huge difference in your MyPillow experience.

In terms of construction, the MyPillow doesn’t have a whole lot to be impressed by. The case is a soft cotton (tattooed with the MyPillow logo everywhere) and allows for you to remove or add foam as needed. The foam inside is shredded polyfoam of varying sizes. They advertise some sort of patented “interlocking” fill but as far as I could see there was nothing interlocking inside and certainly nothing worth patenting.

From a comfort perspective, to be fair my first couple of nights with the MyPillow were exemplary. There was a good fluffiness that felt like a true relief from the previously flattened cotton-filled pillow I was using. That novelty wore off after just a few days when I woke up with neck pains and the foam started to condense into hard, lumpy spots everywhere. I’ve since learned this is a pretty common problem with pillows filled with chunks of things, but at the time I fluffed and re-fluffed in hopes of getting back to those first two majestic nights of novelty.

No fluffs were enough, and within two weeks I was through the MyPillow. Of course, like I said, my experience is my own, and plenty of people seem to find some magic within this pillow. That being said, Amazon currently has a 27% 1-star ratio on the reviews for this pillow which is alarming. Looking through even up to the 4 star reviews you’ll find plenty of MyPillow complaints, so it seems like my experience is not unique.

Is MyPillow meant to be your pillow? Probably not. For $49.99 to $59.99 for the king it’s not the priciest pillow in the world, but you can spend a lot less and do a lot better. There’s at least a 27% chance of that this pillow will ruin your sleep, and isn’t that a good enough reason alone to look elsewhere?

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