CPAPfit Buckwheat CPAP Pillow

I love this Pillow. It allows me to toss and turn all night, and it just reshapes itself.

I have been using the original Bucky© Pillow since it came out many years ago. It is a small pillow, that is just a bag of buckwheat hulls. This new one is a full sized pillow that has a quilted cover. It has a zipper to allow you to remove some of the fill if you need to and a plastic bag to store what you removed. You can actually hear the hulls crunching against one another, but it is not bothersome because you don't tend to need to move your head once it gets into a good position. I tend to "scrunch" up the pillow in the neck area before laying down. I'm a side sleeper. I will lay my head down on the pillow then lift it back up and press a finger where my ear will go. The pillow stays in that position and I don't get any ear pressure. I do the same around the cheek and it prevents the mask from getting pushed off center.

easier to position than a traditional pillow; not yet 100% fond of it, but still using it exclusively

I purchased this pillow in the hopes that it would have more of the feel of a conventional pillow than the VERY firm, contoured CPAP pillow I had been using. I have always been a stomach sleeper, and no pillow i had tried to date would allow me to sleep comfortably on my stomach without dislodging my mask or wrenching my neck. This Buckwheat CPAP pillow takes and keeps ANY shape, feels a LOT more like a conventional pillow, and allows me to sleep in virtually any position I feel comfortable without dislodging my nasal pillow mask. I especially like having the ability to quickly reshape it from a very flat wedge for stomach sleeping to a taller "block" for the best side sleeping support I've ever had. I started with about 2/3 of the fill it came with (the pillow ships with a sturdy bag to store the extra) and that proved to be optimal for me. And it takes a STANDARD pillow case! Can't say enough good things about this pillow!

comfortable

I was not sure about this pillow but my regular one was getting flat and you turn it over and it is flatter. So I bought the Buckwheat Pillow. It is the best pillow that I have owned since I was diagnosed with Sleep Apnea. You get into bed and push where you want the pillow to be and that is all. Stays there all night.

I thought this pillow might be noisy and it wasn't. I thought it might be hard and too firm and it wasn't. I was hoping it would be easy to shape and hold that shape and it was! I am a stomach/side sleeper this pillow is working out pretty well. I haven't tossed my old pillow but I have been sleeping on this pillow every night for 5 nights and I am happy with it.

I have to admit, I was a little hesitant purchasing a pillow stuffed with some sort of organic matter after using a traditional pillow for so many years. When using the pillow for the first time, I also felt strange having to read the instructions on how to use it (a pillow shouldn't require instructions, right?). But this is no ordinary pillow so I did what I had to do. And then it happened. I fell asleep in record time and woke up more refreshed than I had in years. Seriously! And I have been having the most vivid dreams since using this pillow! I have no explanation but I cannot deny the results so I have to highly recommend this (cpap or no cpap)! What's interesting about this sort of pillow (and why it needs instructions), is when you lay your head on it, the instructions say to wiggle your fingers underneath your head to create a pocket for your head to lay in. This creates a perfectly molded spot for your head which is why it is so comfortable. You can also wiggle the fingers under your mask or hose to create a perfect pocket for those as well. This solves so many issues created by trying to sleep with a rubber device blowing gale force winds into your facial orifices. The only downside I have seen with this pillow is that it isn't useful for propping up to watching television since it doesn't hold it's shape. A small price to pay for the other benefits (plus it give me something to do with the 47 throw pillows my wife usually piles on the bed anyway). Enjoy!

I love my new CPAPfit Buckwheat CPAP Pillow. I kept it full like in came. I have slept wonderfully from that night on. It really is a great pillow.

The only pillow I have successfully used, night after night, is an old flat thing that everyone else would throw out without hesitation, until now. The virtue of the old pillow is that I can scrunch and roll it up to the exact thickness I want, very thin for back sleeping, very thick, but different for each side. This Buckwheat pillow can be scrunched into nearly any shape and will stay there without springing back or collapsing. It took some experimentation to use at all. For the first night, I took too much of the stuffing out and had to switch back to my old pillow after an hour. After putting most of the stuffing back in, the Buckwheat Pillow has just worked ever since. I am still learning, after a week or so, how to use it, but I am getting a full night's sleep. I plan to buy another one for a spare soon. I have experimented with many pillows. I have even stuffed a couple of towels into a pillow case. Except for that flat old pillow, nothing worked well enough to try for a second night, until now...

Very good product easy to form, no more stiff neck, holds shape very well.

The first night was uncomfortable. The pillow is quite rigid, but after removing more than half of the hulls I am sleeping through the night. I can lay on my side without disrupting the nasal pillows. I plan on adding more bits of foam to the hulls to create more softness for my ears.