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Phoenix Woman, 67, Discovers What ICU Nurses Are Calling The Fastest Way To Fix Shoulder Pain For Side Sleepers
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Mon. April 20th, 2026 | 11:11 am EST - 251.328
By Dr. Blaine Schilling
Pain Relief Specialist & Doctor of Physical Therapy
Every Thanksgiving, my husband and I drive eleven hours from Phoenix to see our daughter Sarah in Denver.
I love her more than anything. But I dread going.
Not the drive. Not the cold. The sleeping.
I’m a side sleeper. Always have been. But three years ago the shoulder pain started, and it’s gotten worse every single year.
I always slept on my left side. Then the left shoulder got so bad I had to switch to my right.
It was probably only a matter of time before the right one went too.
Most nights I can fall asleep fine. It’s staying asleep that’s the problem.
I’ll wake up and my shoulder is killing me. Deep, aching pain in whatever side I’m lying on.
Sometimes my arm goes completely dead. Pins and needles from the shoulder all the way down to my fingertips.
I’ll flip to the other side, get comfortable for a little while, and then that shoulder starts aching too.
I haven’t slept more than four hours straight in years.
On the bad nights I give up and move to the La-Z-Boy in the living room. Sitting upright is the only position that takes the weight off my shoulders.
At home, it’s just another bad night. Nobody’s watching. Nobody’s asking if I’m okay.
At Sarah’s house, I’m a guest. I don’t want to be the mom who can’t sleep, who’s miserable all morning, who ruins Thanksgiving because she’s exhausted and hurting.
THE FIRST NIGHT
We arrived around 7 PM. Hugs, dinner, catching up. By 10 I was exhausted from the drive.
I laid down on my right side around 10:30 and closed my eyes.
I woke up and looked at the clock… 6:47 AM.
I had slept through the entire night for the first time in three years.
On my side. On the same shoulder. Eight straight hours.
“You didn’t get up once,” my husband said. He looked confused. He’d heard me shuffle to the La-Z-Boy for years.
“Must’ve been the drive,” I said. “I was exhausted.”
But that wasn’t it. Because the second morning I woke up… and realized again… I slept through the entire night.
No tossing. No flipping to the other side. No 3 AM walk to the living room.
I lifted my right arm above my head. Full range of motion. No stiffness. No catching. No pain.
That hadn’t happened in three years.
THE DISCOVERY
That morning, I stripped the pillowcase off and looked at the pillow underneath.
It looked nothing like my pillows back home. Butterfly shape. Two raised wings on the sides. A contoured dip in the middle for the head.
The label read:
“Derila Ergo.”
I’d never heard of it.
I pulled out my phone and googled it right there.
First thing that came up: Trustpilot reviews. 4.7 stars. Thousands of reviews.
I started scrolling…
WHAT MY DAUGHTER TOLD ME
I found Sarah in the kitchen.
“That pillow in the guest room,” I said. “Where did you get it?”
She laughed. “I wondered if you’d notice.”
Sarah’s an ICU nurse. Has been for twelve years.
“You know Dr. Reeves? The orthopedic surgeon I work with?”
I shook my head.
“His wife had a total reverse shoulder replacement last year.
“After the surgery, sleeping was impossible. She’s a side sleeper, same as you, and the pressure on the joint was so bad she’d be up every two hours.
“He tried every pillow, every positioning trick. Nothing worked.”
“Then he found this pillow and it was a game changer. She started sleeping through the night within a week.
“He wouldn’t shut up about it. Kept telling the nurses, ‘If your patients have shoulder issues from side sleeping, tell them about this pillow.’
“So a bunch of us ordered them.”
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“Mom, I’ve tried to help your shoulders for years. You’ve tried everything. I didn’t want to push another pillow on you.”
She was right. I had tried just about every cream, tincture, and pillow out there.
Back home in Phoenix, I have a closet full of different pillows that all claim to be “the best.”
- Coop Original Pillow
- MyPillow Premium
- Cervical Neck Pillow from Amazon
- Tempur-Pedic Cloud
- Purple Harmony Pillow
- Nuzzle Pillow
- Miracle Bamboo Pillow from Costco
Not one of them solved the shoulder pain. Not one.
I really didn’t have much hope left that anything would help.
WHAT MY DAUGHTER EXPLAINED TO ME
“Mom, let me show you something.”
Sarah sat down next to me. She grabbed one of the old guest pillows from the closet.
“Lay on your side for a second.”
I did. She pointed to the space between my neck and the mattress.
“See that gap? Between your shoulder and your neck?
“That’s about four to five inches of empty space that your pillow is supposed to fill.”
She pushed the old pillow under my head. My head sank. The pillow compressed. The gap was still there.
“That’s what I call the pillow hole. Your pillow is too flat, too soft, or just the wrong height. So it doesn’t fill that space. Your neck hangs. Your head drops.”
“And when your head and neck aren’t supported…”
She put her hand on my shoulder, pressing lightly downward.
“…your shoulder is left driving into the mattress. Bearing all your weight. All night.”
She let that sink in.
“Eight hours of your body weight crushing into one shoulder joint.
“That’s why you wake up with a dead arm. That’s why the shoulder aches.
“It’s not a shoulder problem, Mom. It’s a pillow hole problem.”
“And here’s the thing. Even if you’ve got arthritis in the shoulder, a torn rotator cuff, whatever.
“It doesn’t matter what’s going on in that joint if you’re driving it into the mattress for eight hours every night.
“It can’t heal. It can’t recover.
“You’re just re-aggravating it in your sleep and wondering why nothing gets better.”
That hit me.
I’d been taking Advil every morning. Trying pillow after pillow.
But the whole time, it was the gap that wasn’t getting filled.
And my shoulder was paying for it every single night.
"So why doesn't any pillow fix this?"
“Because most pillows are flat slabs,” Sarah said.
“They don’t account for the shape of your neck and shoulder.
“Your head sinks straight down and the gap stays open.”
She picked up the Derila Ergo and turned it sideways so I could see the profile.
“Look at this. Two raised wings on the sides. A contoured dip in the middle for your head.
“When you lay on your side, your head settles into the dip.
“The wing on the mattress side fills the gap between your neck and your shoulder.
“Your spine stays in line.
“That’s why the pillow hole actually gets filled. The shape does the work for you.”
“Okay, but I’ve had contoured pillows before. They felt like sleeping on a rock.”
“That’s the other part.”
She pressed her hand into the pillow. The surface gave way. Her hand sinking in slowly, naturally.
“It’s premium memory foam. Real memory foam, not the cheap kind that flattens after a month.
“It cradles your head and neck instead of pushing back against them.
“So your head is supported, and that takes all the pressure off your shoulder.”
She released. The pillow returned to its butterfly shape.
“Support your head. Fill the gap. Take the pressure off your shoulder. That’s it.”
That’s when I understood why nothing else had worked.
Every other pillow either left the gap open or filled it with something so rigid my shoulder got crushed underneath it.
This was the first one that filled the hole AND let my shoulder breathe.
I ORDERED TWO BEFORE WE LEFT DENVER
The pillows arrived three days after we got home.
I set mine up on my side of the bed.
Head in the contoured dip, the higher wing facing the mattress to fill the gap, just like at Sarah’s.
My husband sleeps like a rock on anything…
But out of curiosity, he tried his that night too.
Said it was the first pillow that didn’t leave his neck stiff in the morning.
THAT WAS 8 WEEKS AGO
The first few nights, I figured it was wishful thinking. I’ve been disappointed by pillows enough times to know not to get excited.
But by the end of week one, something hit me. I hadn’t woken up once to switch to the other side. Not once. I’d sleep the whole night on one shoulder and wake up fine.
After the first week, I’d say the shoulder pain was maybe 75% gone. I still had some stiffness in the morning, but nothing like before.
After two weeks, it was completely gone.
I stopped taking Advil before breakfast. I used to take it every single morning. For three years.
The stiffness that used to make it painful to reach behind my back? Gone. I can pull a sweater on without wincing. I can reach the top shelf again.
And the neck pain I’d had for years? That went away too. Once my shoulders stopped getting crushed every night, my neck stopped trying to compensate. Just like Sarah said it would.
I’ll be honest. I was skeptical of a pillow making this big of a difference. But I don’t know what magic is stuffed in this thing. It works. You can see by my sleep score on my Apple Watch that once I started using it, I’ve had consistently high scores.
I’m not saying I feel 20 again. I’m 67.
But I feel like myself again. The version of me before the shoulder pain started. Before the La-Z-Boy became my second bed. Before I started dreading every trip.
IF YOU'RE STILL WAKING UP IN PAIN
Derila Ergo has a 60-day guarantee.
Three full months to sleep on it every night. If your shoulders don’t feel the difference, send it back. Full refund. No questions asked.
I know what it’s like to dread going to bed because you know your shoulder is going to wake you up. To have your arm go dead night after night. To spend hundreds on pillows that promise to help and don’t change a thing.
You don’t have to keep living like that.
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FOR A LIMITED TIME:
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LIMITED TIME READER-ONLY SPECIAL: Ordering now makes you eligible for up to 70% OFF Derila Ergo Pillow. Only available here. Limited to first 500 customers only.
With love,
Dr. Schilling, Pain Relief Specialist & Doctor of Physical Therapy
P.S. – Sarah just texted me. The orthopedic surgeon she works with now keeps a stack of these in his office to hand out to post-op shoulder patients. That tells you everything.
P.P.S. – Derila Ergo comes with a 60-day guarantee. Sleep on it for two months. If your shoulders don’t feel the difference, send it back. Full refund.
P.P.P.S. – Stock is moving fast at the 70% off price. When inventory drops below 1,000 units, this page comes down and the discount goes with it. Don’t wait.
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Samantha Logan
I bought mine for the full price and now are 50% off? That's not fair!
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Monica Smith
How long does the shipping take?
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Ilse Bierhals
Hey Monica, I received mine after a week.
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Steven Durenman
Bought this for my wife, who has bursitis in both shoulders — She's been so uncomfortable for months. In only a couple of nights she's sleeping straight through.
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Emma Schulz
That's wild! I just ordered two more, one for my mom too.
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Christina Miller
That's wild! I just ordered two more, one for my mom too.
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Hank Schneider
Have you bought one, how long does it take to get to you?
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Susan Brown
For me, 7 working days.
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Gisella Neumann
Should have bought it earlier. It's so nice to actually wake up without a stiff neck. The wings keep my head in place all night, no more flopping side to side. I'm using it every night now.
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Paula Rowen
Wow this sounds amazing. Has anyone over 60 tried this?
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Anna White
Yes, It comes well packed and I've been using it for several weeks. It fits perfectly under my neck. I like how it cradles my head and takes the pressure off my shoulder. The memory foam molds to me and helps a lot, especially as a side sleeper — I used to wake up with a dead arm every night.
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Agnes Graeme
I just ordered mine! I can't wait.
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Barbara Kruger
I really want to test this out. My shoulders have been killing me lately
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Mia Krause
Does anyone know how long shipping takes? I want to surprise my dad with one.
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Laura Lehmann
Hey Mia, mine arrived after about a week.
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Emma Shelby
Your dad will love it! It's the perfect gift if he's been struggling with neck or shoulder pain.
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Harry Keegan
Superb support, the butterfly shape really cradles your neck, soft but firm where it counts, not too bulky so you can take it traveling, cheaper than other ergonomic pillows I've tried, does exactly what it says. Great product, fast shipping! My wife loves it.
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Laura Fuchs
Absolutely loving my Derila Ergo! 🙌
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Anna Madison
I was skeptical at first... but honestly, this pillow is worth every penny. It works. Two of my coworkers ordered one after trying mine!
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Laura Lehmann
I had to buy one for my sister too — she wouldn't stop "borrowing" mine 😂
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Hanna Lang
Omg SAME! I saw it was back in stock and ordered immediately. Didn't want to miss out again.
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Isabella Mayson
Just got mine today — I'm using it tonight for the first time. Fingers crossed!
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A revolutionary pillow is making headlines for ending shoulder and neck pain in side sleepers — in days, not months.
After 24 months of research and over 2,400 sleepers studied, ergonomic experts finally created a contoured solution that fills the gap between your neck and shoulder all night long, in one simple pillow.
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Linda Peterson Tucson, Arizona
Most pillows flatten by morning and leave me with that same aching shoulder. With Derila Ergo, I could actually feel my neck settle into the contour. The first night, I woke up on the same shoulder I went to bed on — no dead arm, no flipping over at 3 AM. It’s simple, and it finally feels like real progress.
Brad Jenkins Sarasota, Florida
I was skeptical — years of trying every pillow on the market made a butterfly-shaped one sound gimmicky. But after a few nights with Derila Ergo the throbbing in my shoulder eased, the morning stiffness was gone, and I slept through the night. This is the first thing that actually changed how my shoulder feels in the morning. 
Jessica Miller Boise, Idaho
Derila Ergo’s butterfly contour finally supports my neck the way it should, and the memory foam took the constant tension out of my shoulders. By week two I was reaching overhead to grab dishes from the top shelf without wincing. I feel like I’ve got my shoulders and my mornings back.
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