Howdy, strangers! I apologize for ghosting y’all final week, however if you happen to comply with me on Instagram or Facebook, then that what I assumed began out as a fundamental chilly for me wound up evidently being COVID (a really delicate case, however annoying nonetheless), which I then handed alongside to Matt (as a result of I’m nothing if not a beneficiant sharer), which landed him within the hospital…AGAIN.
I’m fairly certain that is the third time this has occurred. I get a chilly, or the flu, or COVID, and move it alongside to him, and he lands within the hospital. However it’s by no means the precise chilly or flu or COVID signs that land him there. He doesn’t get the sniffling, runny nostril, congestion, watery eyes, coughing, and all the conventional issues that normally go together with any of these viruses. As a result of he’s already coping with autoimmune points (he has M.S.), he simply will get excessive weak spot and dehydration. It’s at all times these two issues that land him within the hospital each time. Excessive weak spot and dehydration. Ugh.
Anyway, we made it again house, however after a number of days of no relaxation and horrible sleep within the hospital, we had been each so exhausted that I took a few days to simply sleep, chill out, and recuperate. Engaged on home tasks was the very last thing on my thoughts. I had no vitality for it, and no real interest in it. I simply needed sleep and relaxation.
So, talking of relaxation and sleep, I needed to share a current buy with y’all. I used to be very a lot influenced by a number of accounts I comply with in Instagram who saved speaking about this amazing DONAMA memory foam cervical pillow (affiliate hyperlink). It took some time to persuade me, however I lastly gave in and ordered it the day earlier than Matt went into the hospital (which was on Saturday, February third). It arrived the next Tuesday, whereas Matt was nonetheless within the hospital, and after these stressed days and sleepless nights, I used to be so anxious to get house and check out my new pillow to see if it lived as much as the hype.
Right here’s what it appears like. It’s reminiscence foam, so after releasing it from its vacuum sealed packaging, it took about 24 hours to plump as much as its full dimension.
Earlier than I let you know my ideas on this pillow, let me offer you some particulars. First, I’m a again sleeper. And I do imply solely a again sleeper. I by no means sleep on my facet or my abdomen. I fall asleep on my again, and I don’t toss or flip one single bit in the course of the evening. I sleep 100% of the time on my again. That’s it.
However during the last couple of months, I’ve been waking up within the morning with a stress headache on the again of my head. I’d get up with that each single morning, and whereas it could go away inside half-hour of getting away from bed, I nonetheless didn’t like waking up in ache. There was no query in my thoughts that the ache was due to my pillow.
I’ve additionally been waking up with muscle ache in the midst of the best facet of my again each single morning. I assumed it was as a result of I do my kettle bell swings proper earlier than mattress, and that muscle simply wanted to be massaged a bit. That ache would at all times go away inside an hour of getting away from bed within the morning. However it was simply one other annoying ache I used to be coping with each single morning.
My first evening sleeping on this pillow was AMAZING. I can’t even bear in mind the final time I slept that soundly or that deeply via the evening, and I wakened feeling nice. However to be sincere, I wasn’t so fast to provide that credit score to the pillow. I imply, let’s face it. I had simply spent a number of nights making an attempt to sleep subsequent to Matt’s hospital mattress in a rock exhausting, squeaky recliner that wouldn’t keep within the reclined place, whereas nurses got here in in any respect hours of the evening. So my thought was that simply being in a mattress in a spot with no interruptions in the course of the evening might have completed the trick. I wasn’t satisfied that my first evening of sound sleep had something to do with the pillow.
However I’ve now slept 5 nights on this pillow, and y’all! I’M CONVINCED!! I’m sleeping so soundly, so deeply, and so comfortably. I’ve not had a single stress headache within the morning since I began utilizing this pillow. I knew my stress complications had been being attributable to my outdated pillow, so whereas I’m having fun with my headache-free mornings, that was no shock that these complications are actually gone.
What did shock me, nevertheless, is that the ache in my again is totally gone! Evidently, that ache wasn’t being attributable to my kettle bell swings earlier than mattress. It was being attributable to my outdated pillow! I’ve now gotten away from bed 5 mornings in a row utterly pain-free! It’s the pillow, y’all! 😀
So, sure, this pillow lives as much as the hype for me. I give it a really strong and enthusiastic 5 out of 5 stars. I adore it a lot that if I needed to journey, I’d take it with me. After 5 nights, I can say that I wouldn’t wish to sleep with out it.
Once more, I need to emphasize that I’ve no expertise with this pillow as a facet sleeper or abdomen sleeper. I can see how it could be very comfy for a facet sleeper. I query whether or not it could be helpful for a abdomen sleeper. I simply can’t envision a abdomen sleeper being comfy on this pillow, however I could possibly be flawed. I simply don’t know.
Anyway, the individuals I comply with who’ve really helpful this pillow all put separate pillow instances over it. I personally don’t see a necessity in doing that as a result of it comes with a detachable and washable pillow case. Right here’s what the again appears like, and you may see that it has a zipper in order that the fitted pillow case may be eliminated.
And that middle divot is held there with a snap. You simply unsnap it to take away the pillow case.
And the pillowcase itself has sort of a satiny really feel to it. I imply, it’s not satin, however you may think about a stretchy, satiny cloth. I actually prefer it, so I in all probability gained’t be placing a separate pillowcase over it.
So if you happen to’ve been seeing this pillow and contemplating it (affiliate hyperlink), purchase it! I’ve been sleeping so effectively these previous few nights, and I now know for a truth it’s due to the pillow. I adore it!
My different sleep suggestions:
Sleep is so necessary for our well being, and some time again after I was coping with insomnia, I attempted out so many issues to assist me fall asleep and keep asleep all through the evening. Listed below are the issues I like to recommend which have helped me get good, sound sleep.
- The fitting mattress — I do know everybody has totally different desires and wishes in terms of mattresses, and there’s no one-size-fits-all reply in terms of mattresses. However I completely love the mattress we received in 2020. We purchased this 12-inch pillow top memory foam mattress (affiliate hyperlink), and I completely adore it! It’s someplace between a medium and agency, which is ideal for me. It has a 4.4 score with virtually 4,200 rankings. So if you happen to’re available in the market for a medium-to-firm pillow high mattress, this may be the one.
- The fitting sound machine — Matt and I sleep with a sound machine on each evening to drown out ambient noises and outdoors noises. We’ve tried every kind, and those with feels like rain or ocean waves aren’t nice for me as a result of I begin concentrating on the looped sound. So we bought this one that is nothing but white noise (affiliate hyperlink), and it’s wonderful!! It has a 4.6 score with over 6,200 rankings.
- A weighted blanket — I don’t know the science behind it, however weighted blankets are calming. That light stress actually retains me from being stressed and transferring round at evening, and I’m satisfied it helps me sleep deeper because it retains me nonetheless. This is the one I have (affiliate hyperlink), and I extremely advocate it. It has a 4.6 score with over 46,000 rankings.
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