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I started using a weighted blanket and my neck hurts

A weighted blanket presses your shoulder further into the mattress than your body weight alone does. Required loft is your neck-to-shoulder distance MINUS how far the shoulder sinks, so increasing the sink lowers the loft you need. The pillow that fit you in July can be too tall in December under fifteen pounds of blanket.

What the pillow has to do

• loft in measured range — Pillow loft within the range your own measurement implies. This is first for every constraint in this cluster, because no surface is soft enough to rescue a pillow your head has already flattened.
• adjustability preferred — A pillow whose height you can change, because the thing altering your geometry is not present every night — one fixed height cannot be right both with and without it.

How people ask this

• Weighted blanket neck pain
• Do I need a different pillow with a weighted blanket?
• Weighted blanket made my shoulder sore

The pillows indexed here

Work out your own loft first → Loft comes before everything else on this list.