Some nights I’m even (gasp!) a stomach sleeper. In addition, I’m one of those people who doesn’t sleep in the same way ever. Unlike all the other pillows I’ve had, even my favorite for ten years (yup, still gross), my neck never feels clammy from that over-heated sweating then cooling that happens in the middle of the night. As with the mattress, which does get warm with over 300 degrees of warm body underneath the covers but never seems to trap it like my other mattress, my BearPillow remains cool to the touch. So, does this explain why I don’t have neck pain in the morning? Well, despite New England being a cold weather state, we had quite the warm early autumn. What was most interesting in my research was that in a 2015 study of 100 subjects, the researchers found that “for strength recovery, cold applied after 24 hours was better than heat at 24 hours” and that “cold immediately after exercise or 24 hours later was superior to heat in reducing pain.” In other words, studies seem to show that cold helps more than heat in muscle recovery. Crushed ice and wetted ice on a hamstring significantly impact flexibility in test subjects. Lo and behold, the BearPillow does it right. I haven’t had one of those headaches that rise up my shoulder to my neck to the back of my head.” So, I started researching the effect of cold on muscle pain. Finally, about two weeks ago, on a Saturday, I realized, “Wow. Then life got in the way, and I never realized that I was waking up without being sore. Wet and cranky after fighting with my son over what to do for dinner and listening to him whine that I got mail and he didn’t, I started imagining my pillow. I used the bamboo one but, well, meh.Īs I slid the BearPillow out of the box, I was too excited to even snap pictures.

I’d have a headache going up my neck to the back of my skull. I noticed that I’d wake up with a stiff neck. None of them were particularly comfortable. There was some bamboo thing and two other memory foam things. (I know it’s gross.) After settling into our new BearMattress a few months ago, I decided I needed a new pillow. Opening the box, I squeed with joy because inside was a pillow.įor ten years, I had the same expensive Tempurpedic pillow. Unlike the last time I wrote about BearMattress, this new surprise was wholly unexpected and came at just the right time.

On a rainy Friday when my husband was traveling, I came home to a box addressed to GeekMom Karen with a return address label bearing the name “BearMattress” containing a prerelease of the BearPillow.Īfter a long week, with my over-rambunctious seven-year-old and with a late September rainstorm pounding, I brought the soggy box indoors, wondering what could be inside.

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