By
Erin Schwartz,
a Strategist writer covering décor, furniture, and garment care.
They previously worked as an editor at Garage magazine.
I’ve never been a morning person, but I never connected it to bad sleep until a run of befuddling health problems led me to a hypermobility spectrum-disorder diagnosis. Neck instability is a classic symptom, and suddenly, long nights of punching, stacking, and wriggling my arm underneath my pillows to get them into a comfortable shape made sense. I scrolled through dozens of posts on online forums: Had anyone figured out a way to sleep without waking up exhausted and achy? When I found a reference to buckwheat pillows, I was intrigued and bought one on Etsy a few days later.
