I was very apprehensive about this purchase. I never saw anything quite like this pillow before. I have been searching for the perfect pillow for a long time. Actually I could open a store of my own with the number of pillows I have. Whenever a member of my family needs a pillow they don't go to the store they come to my house. I have neck and back issues. Then my husband said buy yourself something for Christmas...famous last words...and I picked this. I haven't quite figured out how to sleep with it all night yet. And it's not so easy to discard because it weighs a ton. But, during the night I somehow slip out of it and you guessed it my husband spends the rest of the night nesting. We haven't quite figured out how to both use it at the same time yet but I want you to know that both of our backs feel better. I had bought a new mattress last year and that didn't work out as good as this. Don't ask me how this pillow works...I don't know...all I know is that it helps me. I sleep all night through from the first night I used it. I don't even remember relinquishing the pillow to my husband but 5 out of 10 mornings I wake and he's got the pillow. So yes I would recommend you try it if you deal with an everyday back problem.