Help with cervical colar

[Lanners]

Bought a cervical colar and tried for first night. I am choking, coughing quite a bit. Loosened colar. Didn't help.

Plus side-it did keep my mouth closed, but, unlike mouth tape, when i was choking i could open it. This seems promising so I want to figure out how to choose a better collar.

I am thinking it may be too firm. Also maybe I measured my neck wrong.??? I have a long skinny neck. I measured height 4.5 inches. Highest i could buy was 3.5 inches, and now that feels too high. But maybe because it is too firm.???

Do you have suggestions on shopping for a different one? Can a softer collar keep my chin up?

[staceyburke]

The height is the most important. The height is the distance from your chin to your sternum.   The tightness should be controlled with the Velcro.

[eok361]

i tried a few different collars until settling on the caldera releaf. a lot of the tan, stiff ones created problems. one so much as to me thinking i had collapsed my esophagus. 

the releaf height can be somewhat (read: a little) adjusted because of the pleat in the bottom section. 

i had just posted earlier in the week what happens when i don't wear it. i'm a back sleeper, and the releaf, in conjunction with a pillow it took me many tries to find, has/have really reduced my chin tucking.