Respironics Chin Strap - Premium

I use a bi-pap machine with nasal pillows. This strap is so easy to use and keeps my mouth closed so air does not escape. I’m really not sure why other reviews say it’s hard to use. It goes around your head and Velcro’s to itself and the strap goes from the slotted area on the head strap and goes around the back of your head and Velcros to the head strap. What could be easier? It is machine washable by putting it in a delicates bag and throwing it in with your clothes. They usually last about 9 months to a year and then you replace it. Easy and effective!

This works pretty good for me, BUT where it gets wider at the middle of my ears, really Hurts!! I cut the wider part off both sides (just at the ears) and it’s more comfortable.

I've been a CPAP user for nearly a decade now, and over that period, have tried nearly a dozen different chin straps. (My draw is filled with the "failures" that I've kept in case I can ever repurpose them as??? ) Of all I've tried, this is by far the one that I've found to be the easiest to adjust such that it is comfortable and doesn't cause irritation, abrasion or outright pain.

The chin strap came and there's a THICK booklet with very little information in it, just TINY little text and a few illustrations repeated over and over in various languages.There's a slit in one side so you can wrap the adjustment strap and attach it to itself with Velcro once around it, but the other side is completely different, no slit, and all you do with that on is lay the end of the strap on the side of the mask itself.I find this tight, ill-fitting, itchy, and covers my ears (not over my ears) uncomfortably.Until you get the strap around the back just right, too, the mask will keep bouncing off your head as you're trying to put it on.I was hoping to SEE what was going on and how to fit this in a video. I couldn't. I guess Respironics with their poorly made $6,000+ finicky machines couldn't afford to do that, and never heard of YouTube.The other chin mask I got works about as well and required nothing but slipping it on. Nothing to figure out. No little poorly thought out book text to try to decipher.This MAY work for some once you get all the issues dealt with, but a customer should never be left blind to figure it out on their own like I was with this product.

Updated 10/1/13: I changed the stars to 3 because after wrapping it in self sticking sports wrap it mostly stays in place and doesn't slip around as much. I can't use the velcro strap in the back because it's really itchy and it doesn't help keep the strap in place at all. So I'll use it until I find something better.Updated again 10/18/13: I've been using it almost every night because I haven't found the time to find anything better. It's pretty much lost all its stretch and it's frayed, but it's still usable. I've discovered that if I make two ponytails in my hair, one right on top of the other, I can fit this band between the ponytails to keep it in place without having to use the self sticking sports wrap on it. All in all, I guess it was worth the $8 +$5 shipping, but only if it holds up a while longer. I'll leave the 3 stars.First of all, this strap came in two pieces and it should have been obvious how to put it together, but it wasn't and no instructions were included. One part was a thin strap with velcro that goes behind the head and the second part is the wide part that goes around the top of your head. There is a slit where the small strap is inserted on one side of the big strap but no slit on the other side, so I just stuck it together the best I could, although this made the whole assembly asymmetrical and lumpy. It's quite possible I put it together wrong, but there's no way to tell. I can't tell if the product is just poorly made or I got a defective one or if I put it together wrong.I spent way too much time trying to figure out a way to put it together to make it say on my head. I finally figured out a way to sort of keep it on my head, but it was pretty uncomfortable because the itchy velcro part kept slipping and settling on my ears. I finally cut up an old t-shirt and put the cloth between the strap and my ears to protect them which helped with the abrasive parts of the strap.But the big strap that goes over the top of the head to the chin slips all over the place, so I thought maybe I had it inside out, but it slipped either way. I woke up several times during the night with it all tangled up and I finally just took the thing off.I had been wearing self sticking sports wrap (coban) with one strip around my head, which while it worked very well, it was mega ugly and got bunched up too easily so I had to get a new strip every few days.I'm going to try it a few more times and see if I can get it configured so it doesn't eat my ears, slip all over the place and actually hold my jaw shut.If I get it worked out, I'll edit this post to let you all know.

I'm a 53 year old male, overweight, snorer and my own snoring keeps waking me up right when I'm drifting off. This leads to chronic fatigue and a big reduction in happiness. When I'm tired, nothing in life gets me very excited and all I want to do is sleep - and I used to be in a good mood and full of energy most of the time before the snoring kicked in a few years ago. My doctor suggested a CPAP test but I don't want to be strapped to a machine if I can avoid it (and I don't see how you can easily turn around with that hose attached). So far, this simple device seems to have helped. I only wore it a few times but it's way more comfortable than the mouthpiece previously tried that left me "drooling and gagging" - not a good experiment that lasted only 3 nights and for only about 2 hours each night before I would give up. I believe the "Strap" improved my sleep because I haven't used it in a while but I feel more rested now (as I recall, it was used 3 or 4 consecutive nights and made it all the way thru the night). Maybe you only need it now and then to trigger good "natural" sleep patterns that persist for weeks on end. In fact, I totally forgot I owned/used it until Amazon sent me a notice to review it. It's worth a try because it's comfortable, adjustable, seems to help and is very affordable and makes you look like a wrestler! I'd rather look like a wrestler than a SCUBA diver (CPAP) when I sleep.