I was looking forward to a great hot water bottle for neck pain. However, I have been scalded me with each use the hand! Even "in-the-length-pull-over-the-filling" has proved no better success. By tubular form this hot water bottle holds also not all too long. If you have it but once done it is really nice for the neck, but she wants to throw my husband's favorite already in a high arc away because then I can indeed warming than my neck, so far but always at the same time an ice pack on my hand would have.