Hi Checker,

I'm speaking only as someone with a variety of back pain problems, some of them severe and troublesome. I don't know about the surgery you mention.

But if it were me, I'd ask the doctor first about what kinds of pillows to get or avoid. Then I'd look up pillows on Amazon and see what's available. There will be a huge variety, and I might just pick the one that looks as if it will work for me and try it.


You can usually return items if you don't wait too long and haven't damaged them. You could try out another one, and so on, until you find one that seems best for you.