Frequently Asked Questions

You can read details about elevated sleeping and its benefits here --- About Inclined Sleeping.

Because it can help many night-time symptoms and prevent several health conditions from aggravating. It's also a good sleeping position that one may want to adopt for its many benefits.  Learn about benefits, and possible drawbacks of elevated sleeping here --- Inclined Sleeping Benefits

It’s simple. You can set up an inclined bed at your own home to test it for yourself if it is good for you or helps with the symptom you have.

Click to see our guides to setting up an inclined bed

Such setting is usually appropriate for a short-term trial since the things you put underneath the mattress would soon slip out of their positions, lowering the elevation and making the mattress less stable.

Here are other very good reasons why many people have decided to buy a proper bed wedge.

• Save the Mattress: They do not want to bend and risk damaging their mattresses.
  -- Putting a wedge on a mattress save it from being bent.
• Big Mattress: They have big mattresses. It’s too much work to set up the entire mattress. But it’s not possible to put something under one half of the mattress without affecting the other half.
  -- Using a wedge pillow on one side of the mattress will not affect the other half.- The gravity drains mucus from sinus passages, preventing further infection and swelling.
• The Look: A pile of things stacking under the mattress does look awful especially for the poor sleeping partner who has to see it close-up every day.
  -- A wedge pillow on mattress is obviously a prettier solution.
• Dust: Dust falls into the gap, and collects on top of the things under the mattress as well as the floor below, which is unhealthy for the users as well as for their sleeping partners.
  -- Having a bed wedge on, or even under, the mattress will not create corners or gaps trapping dust.
• Convenience: A wedge pillow is easier to use. It can be conveniently put on, under, or away from the mattress. It can also be moved to a different room, or even transported somewhere. (See our tips on transporting your wedge pillow)

Here are some important points that make bed wedges a more favorable choice. If you agree with most or all of them, we believe you would as well prefer a wedge over an adjustable bed base.

• Save the Mattress: Can your mattress bend? Will the bending damage your mattress, which means the solution will eventually be more expensive than its original cost?
  -- A bed wedge can sit nicely on your mattress without abusing it even a tiny bit.
• Shared Mattress: Do you share a big mattress with your sleeping partner? If so, it means you will need to buy a bigger adjustable base or two single ones. That also means higher cost. In case of using two adjustable bases, you also have to synchronize the lifting so that your mattress is leveled. Besides, is your partner ready to sleep on an incline at all? If yes, will he/she feel comfortable on your preferred elevation?
  -- With a wedge, you won’t have any of those problems at all.  A bed wedge allows you to take care of yourself while being considerate to the person sleeping next to you.
• Gap behind lifted mattress: Empty space at the back of the lifted mattress creates unpleasant sight for your sleeping partner (assume you both use two separate mattresses). The gap also allows dust to collect, which is not healthy for you and your partner.
  -- Putting a bed wedge on your mattress avoid this dust problem completely. In fact, not having a gap behind the mattress is the first reason why many people do not even consider an adjustable bed base. Some buyers even decided to switch from their adjustable bed bases to wedge pillows because of this one reason.
• Portability: You can easily move your wedge pillow; to another room or while you are away on vacation
  -- These options are not possible with a bed base. (See tips on transporting your wedge pillow.)
• Stability and Quietness: Will the adjustable bed base squeak when you move, toss, and turn? If not when it’s new, will it after a period of use? Is it secure? Will it collapse and snap your sleeping partner’s hand (if he happens to stick it under there)?
  -- There are no such risks with a bed wedge. No matter how often you turn or how strong you throw yourself on it, it will never ‘complain’ or collapse.

The wedge is simply a safer, nicer, easier, and more versatile option.

• Tilted bed frame is not safe
  Bed frames are designed to stand straight with all legs perpendicular to the floor. When we tilt up the head side of the bed, the lower legs on the feet side will be bearing most of the weight. Eventually, the lower legs can break and the whole bed collapses. You can’t confidently get in and out of bed as well as freely toss and turn in bed because of fear that the bed legs may give up on you. Will you feel relax and comfortable in such a bed?
• Tilted bed frame looks awkward
  Besides the safety and comfort issues, the bed legs extension also fails to meet many people’s aesthetic requirement. It simply looks awkward; some even say “ugly”.
• Tilted bed frame is not easy to set up and it is not flexible
  The wedge is easy to use without you having to lift a heavy bed frame as you have to when you put the extension legs under your bed. You can also move the wedge pillow, or sit it up to support you while sitting in bed. You can do none of these with the leg extension system.

A Better Alternative - Full Mattress Tilt System

If you happen to prefer tilting your entire mattress, rather than just the head side, then we would recommend the full-mattress tilt system, which tilts just the mattress, and not the bed frame. The solution should give you a more solid and secure support and yet with a more pleasant looking.

Some wedge pillows appear to be cheaper in prices because of some combination of these factors:

• They are narrower - usually 50 - 60 cm: too narrow for real comfortable sleep
• They are shorter - usually 50 - 65 cm:
  -- not supporting the entire back
  -- causing the back to bend and increasing pressure in lungs and stomach area (bad for spine and reflux symptom)
• The foam used is from non-European suppliers - possibly with lower quality.
• Not Certified - The foam used may not have safety certification,
• Bare foam - The foam used has little or no protection
• Fixed, Not adjustable - The wedges do not have any features that allows adjustment, e.g. fixed height and fixed foam type. They will most likely fail to meet each individual’s different physical structures and changing needs.

EZsleep wedge offers you best value for your money.

• Quality materials: We use high quality foam with Oeko-Tex Standard 100 certification (class I) from a leading Austrian corporate group. So you can trust that it is safe for you.
• Foam Protection - Foam Case: Our foam wedge layers come protected inside a shell and generally with a zipper.
• Large and real functional size:  Equanimo is determined to provide a truly functional product.
  -- EZsleep wedge pillow is 85 cm wide, suitable for use on either an 80 or 90 cm mattress, allowing an optimum use of your mattress width.
  -- The wedge has an 80-cm length to ensure that your entire back is supported so your spine will be in its neutral position and your head and neck have enough room to stay straight.
• Adjustability, Flexibility, and Versatility: There is no one solution that will fit the needs of everyone. Individuals have different body structure and other physical conditions. The needs of one same person also vary from time to time
  -- We have designed our EZsleep Wedge pillow to enable you to conveniently adjust and readjust both height and type of foam support to fit your requirements at any given time.
  -- It’s also flexible. You can put the wedge on or underneath your mattress. The foam wedge layers can be used with or without the waterproof  case. You can also split the foam wedge layers and place them in different combinations that fit your bed setup preference.
  -- The versatile EZsleep Wedge Pillow can be used not only for your body, but also for your legs, and for sitting.
• MADE IN EUROPE: Our products are all made in EU (unless otherwise noted). Our company is also a European company located in Slovakia. Not only you can rest assure that we are here ready to support you at any time, can you also feel proud of your support to European economy.

We Focus on Functionality and Comfort

Our wedges are wider and longer than most wedge products offered in the market because we place our first priority on functionality, which also includes comfort.

Most of the available products in the market are made with approx. 60 cm width to make their prices competitive. However, our hundreds of nights of testing tells us that a true comfortable sleeping cannot be achieved within 60 cm width, especially when considering the natural body mechanism that urges us to toss and turn several times in order to avoid excessive pressure on any particular spots.

• Wide = Comfortable Sleep
  EZsleep Wedge is 85 cm wide, which is optimum for using on both 80 and 90 cm mattresses, though some people with 70cm mattresses also use it because they do not want to further limit their sleeping area on their already rather narrow mattresses.
• Long = Support to the Entire Spine
  EZsleep Wedge is long - 80 cm, so it can support your entire back and not only part of it as shorter wedges in the market do.

Short Wedges - Cheaper but Bad for You

A shorter wedge that causes your back to bend in the middle is bad for your spine and creates unnecessary pressure in your lungs, esophagus, and stomach area -- making it more difficult to breathe for those with lung conditions, or triggering the symptoms for those susceptible to acid reflux and indigestion.

Here, you can see the comparison of all the foam types used in our wedge products to see which one may suit you best.

This is really up to you since you’ll get an EZsleep wedge from any of the two options. However, we’d like to encourage people to get a set because we want them to get the best experience using the product.

The set comes with a 100% cotton wedge cover, which provides natural touch on skin. Most importantly, the accompanying FlexiSoft pillow can be easily adjusted to ensure that you always have your neck supported on an appropriate pillow height on any given wedge elevation --- a very critical factor for quality sleep. The pillow is extra long (85 cm), so it allows you to use full width of the wedge and your mattress. In addition, you can also use the pillow to support your knees for a healthy posture, or under your thighs to help prevent you from sliding down the wedge. The pillow is also good for ‘hugging’ to support your shoulders and arms during side sleeping.

Putting your interests in mind, we’ve decided to subsidize some cost to make the price of the set attractive to you, and we hope you will not pass up this good deal.

Buy an EZsleep Wedge or EZsleep Wedge Set here.

At the present time, we do not have a travel bag for the wedge. We try to minimize any extra costs that do not really affect the real functions and quality of the products. Besides, we believe many people have a few spare packaging from their earlier purchases of some bedding or household items that can be used for holding the wedge when necessary.

However, if you feel the travel bag is important, we’d love to hear your feedback for our future improvement. Please kindly let us know here --- Contact Us.

Despite its large size, the EZsleep Wedge Pillow of any height is light and can certainly be brought with you on your trip, especially when you travel in your own car. The wedge can be put on the back seat or in the trunk. To keep the wedge clean, try wrapping it in a bed sheet.

For EZsleep 10x3 and 10x2, you may consider pulling one foam wedge layer out from the shell, and rotate it so its thick side (10 cm) aligns on top of the thin side of the other layer. Doing so helps reduce the thickness of the whole EZsleep 10x3 from 30 to 20 cm or transform the EZsleep 10x2 (20 cm) to a rectangular block with only 10 cm height.

EZsleep 10x1 is not a problem even when you carry it on public transportation. For memory foam or soft foam, you can easily roll the wedge and wrap it with a towel, and then tie it with a string. In case of hard and medium foam, loosely fold the wedge in the middle before wrapping and tying it. It’s highly recommended that you unroll or unfold the wedge as soon as you get to your destination to avoid creating fold lines on the foam.

Please do not panic, this is a common challenge among new wedge users. Try the following tricks, or at least use these as ideas to experiment on your own. You will soon find that it is not too difficult to keep yourself comfortable on the wedge throughout the night.

For Back Sleeping

For a back sleeper, you can roll or fold a blanket and put it underneath your thighs (a bit below your buttock and down to the back of your knees).

You can also place a soft pillow or folded soft blanket underneath your knees. This should help stop you from sliding down and at the same time help support your knees, reducing tension under your knees and on your lower back

For Side Sleeping

Side sleepers do not slide down as much as back sleepers do, however if that happens, you can try hugging on a pillow - not only it supports your shoulder and arms, it also allows you to hold on to something so you can stay in place.

It's a good idea to place a small pillow or a folded blanket between your knees to prevent stress on your hips and lower back. Or instead of using two pillows, you can as well use one body pillow (or long rolled blanket).

Neck pain after sleeping on a wedge is mainly because of the inappropriate pillow height - too high or too low. This is a common cause of neck pain even in a flat sleeping position.

After switching to sleep on an incline, many people still continue using the same pillow (with the same height) as the ones used when they were sleeping flat. The same pillow height is usually considered too high for an elevated sleeping, specifically for back sleepers.

We would like to emphasize that the pillow height needs to be adjusted to fit each particular wedge slope. Therefore, each time the sleeping elevation is changed, the pillow height MUST as well be adjusted.

The BOTTOM LINE: When adjusting your pillow and wedge heights, make sure that they support your head, neck, and trunk in a way that your spine is in its neutral position.

Simple! You can increase the slope of your EZsleep wedge pillow by simply put a folded blanket or towel underneath either the wedge or the mattress. Please make sure the blanket is laid down in a way that the surface is smooth so your wedge remains stable and even.

This is a simplest way to temporarily elevate the slope to help you get through a night when your symptom appears to be stronger than usual.  However, if you regularly need to increase the height, or need to keep the new elevation for longer time, you may want to consider getting an extra EZsleep Wedge 10x1 or 10x2 as it will be more convenient to use and easier to handle.

Absolutely yes. When your legs feel tired after a lot of walking throughout the day or they are swelling after a long hours of standing or sitting, lifting them up will do good for them.  You can try various ways of using the wedge to see which one is good for you and your purpose.

Improve Drainage - Reduce Swelling

Using it from the front where your feet point up higher than your heart helps reduce swelling by draining the fluids congested in your feet, ankles, and legs back to the body.

Reduce Lower Back Stress

Using it from the back where you knees are lifted and bent and your legs slightly point down is another way to support your knees and reduce stress on your spine during the time you sleep on your back.

Certainly yes. The EZW 10x1, 10x2, 10x3 can be used by side sleepers such as you as well. The important points to remember are:

1. Use an appropriate pillow height to keep your neck straight and your spine aligned in its neutral position as well as prevent you from sleeping on your lower shoulder.
2. Keep your shoulders open:  Hugging a pillow is an easy and comfortable way to keep your shoulders on. Sleeping on the lower shoulder as well as letting the upper one collapse will strain your shoulders and neck.
3. Keep your hips aligned in their natural position. If the upper hip flops down, you can experience some hip pain (This is also a common problem even when one sleeps on the side in flat level). Put a flat pillow or a folded blanket between your knees and legs to help maintain the hip alignment.

Unfortunately the wedge pillow is not appropriate for stomach sleeping. It will certainly create problems to your back and neck before it helps with any of your issues.

The fact that several symptoms can be alleviated with elevated sleeping indicates that flat lying -on the back, side, or stomach- will worsen the problems. If you are having any of such difficulties, we would like to recommend the following two options:

1. Learn a new sleeping habit. Train yourself to sleep on your back or your side. At first, you may try on a flat level and later with elevated upper body. It’s just like you fall asleep in your TV recliner  or a reclining beach chair. By imagining so, you might feel that back sleeping is not too strange after all. We have seen people who have successfully managed such change, and we believe as long as you are willing to, you can do it as well.
2. Using a full-mattress tilt system such as a wedge mattress or a wedge base that tilts your entire mattress. With this solution, you can sleep in any position you are used to!

FlexiSoft Pillow is adjustable to fit any preferred sleeping position. The key is to make sure that the pillow is adjusted to support natural, straight alignment of your spine regardless of sleeping position.

Back Sleeping: Use less filling to make the pillow flat and rather soft so it can mold around the curve of your neck.

Side Sleeping: Use more filling to increase the pillow height and firmness.

Back and Side Sleeping: Adjust the pillow to form a low front lobe and a head cradle to support your neck and head during back sleeping and high side lobes to support your head and neck during side sleeping.

Stomach Sleeping: Use little filling to make the pillow rather flat. Fold the pillow half of the length - making it shorter (Mini FlexiSoft Pillow). Use it to support under your abdominal area.

Sleeping without pillow: Use just a little amount of filling, and fold the pillow along the length to make it a “narrow FlexiSoft Pillow”. Use it to support the curve of your neck (cervical curve).

There are two main reasons.

1. We’d like to encourage the user to wash the items before use:
   The pillow shell and pillowcase are 100% cotton. The new, unwashed items have been made bigger to prepare for 4-9% shrinkage. They need to be washed to allow them to shrink to the right size (approx. 85x43 cm) in addition to making them nice and clean.
2. We also would like you to put the filling into the pillow yourself:
   By doing so, we can ensure that you have the right amount of filling for the pillow height suitable for your body and your needs.
   
   Pillow height is extremely important to the sleep quality both on flat or elevated positions. We’ve learnt from our experience that many users used the pillow the way they received from us without adjusting the filling. In most cases, it resulted in too high a pillow, which caused neck strain. Therefore we have then decided to leave the pillow shell unfilled in order to avoid such situation. We hope you understand our good intention.

Yes, you can. And as with any kind of filling, you should make sure that you dry the pillow and the filling completely before using it again. One big advantage of FlexiSoft Pillow is that you can open the shell and use your hands to feel whether the filling has been completely dried or not. You can divide the filling into a few laundry bags before leaving it to dry or putting it in a dryer.

Please refer to the wash instructions on its care label.

Yes, and in fact, you should. Regardless of whether you sleep in a flat or an elevated position, you should appropriately keep your knee supported in order to reduce the tension on your lower back.

Yes, we do have a bulk buying discount including special shipping fees when you purchase four or more pieces of an item.

If you have friends, coworkers, or family members who are also interested in buying the same product, it’s certainly the best deal for you to order them together. Please kindly get in touch and order the item here, or directly email your order to us at contact(at)equanimo.com. Thank you!

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You can visit your local health aids and equipment store to ask to see and/or buy Equanimo Products. If your store doesn’t know about us yet, you can either ask them to reach us, or simply let us know the name and location of the store. We’ll contact them as soon as possible and make any necessary arrangement to bring our items to the store.

Some stores may have sample products to show you but may not carry an extra stock. Youcan still order the product through the shop without having to buy online. You can rest assure that you will get exactly the same Equanimo product no matter through which channel you purchase.

We’re now in the process of getting in touch with a number of stores, but maybe we’ve not got to your location yet. However, we’ll be happy to do so right away. Please let us know the name and location of the store you’ve just visited. We’ll reach out and make any necessary arrangement to bring our items to their store as soon as possible.

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