Top critical review
1.0 out of 5 starsNot plush or soft at all, and too short - leaving your feet unsupported
Reviewed in Canada on April 26, 2023
So this "pillow" came very tightly vacuum packed, and left open in a normally warm room - got to its full size and shape within a couple of hours or less.
The major issues that I have with this item though:
1. It is very hard. I thought being memory foam like pillows I have or my mattress - that it would be softer, but it isn't. The material it is made of is so hard that I feel my ankles going numb after quite a short time using this support pillow, which is disappointing and makes using it uncomfortable after quite a short time. This might be possible to improve by getting a softer piece of material to insert between the top of this pillow and its cover, but that would neither be good for the cover - which to its credit I would say covers this pillow nice and tightly (see further down about that - it isn't that good for other reasons), nor should you need to do that and spend more money to get something like this to be comfortable to begin with. Big let down on that.
2. The cover is made of a "Velvet-like" material, which makes it almost impossible to reposition this pillow without forcing you to ignore your already aching lower back because you have to lift this pillow up to move it - otherwise the friction from the cover material against your sheet and/or blanket makes it impossible to just slide to a different position or angle.
3. This pillow simply is too short - it leaves your feet out to dangle with absolutely no support, unless your legs are VERY short (I'm about 182cm tall), which causes ankle pain and foot pain - especially if you're using anything by the lightest weight blanket or sheet to cover with - as if then your feet also not only dangle down of their own weight - they're also being pushed down by the weight of your blanket hanging over them, which really hurts quite quickly. You can even see that from the product pictures.
Overall, I would say that unless you really don't care or are affected by what I described - you really should avoid this one, and look for a better designed and constructed support pillow for your legs instead.
Not recommended.