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For years my hours of computer usage has done in a number of chair cushions, only to have me futily try to replace the cushion with lack luster substitutes. I buy pillows of all types from local stores just to have them go flat/uncomfortable in a matter of months.
I've yet to find a kind of -memory foam- or -gel- type of pillow that would stay forever (mostly) cushy for my cushion destroying posterior.

Does anyone have a recommendation I may not have tried? (I can't possibly be the only one with this problem... can I?)

Inflatable donut.[DOUBLEPOST=1352839848][/DOUBLEPOST]They cost $5 and do the trick. Just be sure to keep a spare.

I've got my own posterior cushioning built in, these days, and just use a comfortable wooden chair for my computer desk at home - but it can take years of conditioning for wooden chairs to become comfortable enough.

Gared is a hard-ass.

sixpackshaker said:

Gared is a hard-ass.

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Damn skippy. One of a long line of hard-asses.

The one piece of furniture that I actually spent the most money on that I own is a good computer chair.

I've been using a metal folding chair for the last two years because I keep destroying my computer chairs by leaning back into them for support. As you can probably guess, I have constant back pains.

Bowielee said:

The one piece of furniture that I actually spent the most money on that I own is a good computer chair.

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Yep, I spend about $100-$200 in chairs and end up with flat cushions within 1-2yrs. I don't want to replace the chair, everything else except the bottom cushion is fantastic.

I simply sit on the mashed meat of the corpses of my enemi-UH- FLEECE! Yup fleece is what I meant to say, not anything...incriminating.

Gilgamesh said:

I've yet to find a kind of -memory foam- or -gel- type of pillow that would stay forever (mostly) cushy

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Memory foam or gel type cushions simply aren't going to stay cushy forever. You will want to look at a new chair that uses metal springs. That doesn't necessarily mean the coil type springs commonly found in mattresses and couches, but, for instance, webbing, mesh, and plastic chairs have metal bars on the side that flex with the load on the fabric/webbing/mesh/plastic.

These will last much longer while still providing you with the firmness/softness they started out with.

Your spine is worth an investment in a great office chair, trust me - if you sit in the same chair for more than an hour a day it's worth getting one that will support you well:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/07/investing-in-a-quality-programming-chair.html[DOUBLEPOST=1352844076][/DOUBLEPOST]

Gilgamesh said:

I don't want to replace the chair, everything else except the [most important part of the chair] is fantastic.

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ftfy

I was gonna suggest trying spray-on polystyrene packing foam for a cushy pad that fits your form... but then I googled it up and found out that shit is 300 bucks a can. Never mind, you could just get a really nice goddamned chair for that.

I got one of these for my office, best purchase I ever made, bought the reinforced super model and never regreted the money.

I gotta get one of those chairs, my back is fucking KILLING me. Its like every time I slump and straighten out a horrible monster is stabbing me in the back with broken glass!

Sadly I do not have the room for a large chair in the area my PC is.

I bought a thick, foam, vinyl-covered (like those keychain floats) gardening kneeling pad, cheap and works great on a metal folding chair

stienman said:

Your spine is worth an investment in a great office chair, trust me - if you sit in the same chair for more than an hour a day it's worth getting one that will support you well:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/07/investing-in-a-quality-programming-chair.html

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AH yes. I have an "ergonomic" chair at work, and it's horrible. For some reason, the forward/backward titl of the seating and the counterweight for reclining are on one knob, making one harder automatically adjusts the other. I'm constantly leaning back and forth, and I can choose between either falling forward halfway through the movement, or having to really push hard against the back to get back where I was. Obviously both are horrible. The desk's also about 4 inches too low for me. However, these are €1.000 chairs, so my employer's "already doing everything he can".
I'd be perfectly happy if I could just stuff some wooden blocks under the desk's feet or something, and bring my own chair from home, which is 10x better for my build at 1/10th the cost. *sigh*

We have Aerons at work. Sometimes, the hype is right on.

Bubble181 said:

AH yes. I have an "ergonomic" chair at work, and it's horrible.

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The a some really horrible "ergonomic" chairs out there for sure. You seem to be stuck with what you've got, but I've found companies more than happy to let me bring in my own seating and adjust my workstation as necessary for my needs.

stienman said:

The a some really horrible "ergonomic" chairs out there for sure. You seem to be stuck with what you've got, but I've found companies more than happy to let me bring in my own seating and adjust my workstation as necessary for my needs.

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One of the downsides of sharing desks and seats. The chairs are in use 24/7/365, which means they're adjusted way more often than a regular office chair and are used a LOT more (office hours - 5x8h/week - are less than a fifth of the time our chairs are in use. 1/4th if you assume people make long hours), so they suffer, a lot, and often. Also, no sense of ownership/propriety, so certain co-workers with a certain...gravitas...to them, feel they're perfectly within their rights to plop down into a chair full-weight-first and bounce back. One of the chairs was broken literally the first day we had them. Of course, he never sits in that chair anymore, because it's a bit crooked and it's totally not his fault, whateverdoyoumean.
Also the reason I can't just up my desk; some of my colleagues are more than a foot shorter than me. Eh.

The sad thing is, our previous chairs were exactly the same as these, except they had the tilt and recline on separate bobamathingies. I liked those chairs, except for the bits that were broken (no head rest, or a headrest stuck in the lowest position, forcing me into a crouch, or a seat that's tilted about 20° to the left,....)

I was thinking you might be in an open desk workspace. That's a difficult situation to fix, because the instant you bring in a nicer chair it's the one you'll never find available when you work. They should at least get adjustable height desks, though. Standing while working then switching to sitting while working and back throughout the day can help a lot.

You could always get a Swopper.

--Patrick

PatrThom said:

You could always get a Swopper.

--Patrick

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...hello either weirdest or coolest thing I've seen today.

Yoshimickster said:

...hello either weirdest or coolest thing I've seen today.

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Let me blow your mind:

Ah-haw man, those things! I would get dizzy as hell on one of them things.

stienman said:

Let me blow your mind:

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I would like to point out that Ellen is a trained comedienne, and that this sort of activity should not be attempted by amateurs. Consult with your physician before using Happy Fun Ball the Hawaiian Chair.

--Patrick

That kind-of chair should only be used by trained people. Like, several hours of training via montage, entering a tournament, some annoying love interest saying "YOU CAN'T WIN!" and then you are the chair champion.

fade said:

We have Aerons at work. Sometimes, the hype is right on.

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We have these at my work as well, and they are damned comfortable.