CPAP Mask Chinstrap Deluxe - Philips

I love this style of a chinstrap because it's extremely comfortable. It won't slip off during the night. It's extremely cool temperature wise some of the neoprene ones are thicker material holding in your body temperature. The thick ones made me sweat through the night and I was getting these little red bumps at the base of my neck. Extremely uncomfortable I have those things. Well with this white cotton cloth it stays cool and dry and there's no red bumps to deal with.

This strap really helps. I've tried others, but this has the stretch and flexibility to conform to my face and mask.

When I went to pick this up, the gal referred to it as "an Ace bandage for the head." I tried it once and tossed it in a drawer. Absurd.

It had become apparent to me as a long time CPAP user that I needed a chin strap to keep my mouth closed. I purchased a cheap strap thru Amazon as a trial balloon. Found that the concept could work, but that the design of the strap was inadequate. So I looked for a better design, and found this one. It's actually engineered to keep the mouth closed, making use of a chin cradling design held in place by a designed angle approach. It works. It's comfortable, and I'm extremely satisfied.
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I have been using this chin strap for only 2 weeks, and already it is pilling in a big way in the area that goes under my chin. I am female of normal size, but this chinstrap is too short to go around my head as pictured. So I must stretch it a lot to fit, which then causes a lot of pressure on the top of my head. Because the strap is so wide, it covers my ears (which is annoying and uncomfortable), and my cheeks---together with a nasal mask and its straps, there is no contact of my face with my pillow. I like to feel my cool pillow on my face; with this mask, that is not possible. I feel like a mummy with this strap on. Very uncomfortable. Wearing this strap makes me feel very claustrophobic. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night, finding myself screaming and ripping the strap and the mask off. On a positive note, I think the strap does help to keep my mouth closed (or partly closed) as my mouth is not as dry as it gets without the chinstrap. The picture doesn't show the two straps that come with it, that go across the back of the head. Without using at least one of these, the mask quickly slid forward right off my head---I found it dangling on my CPAP hose!