When you're waking up multiple times every night with a parched mouth, desperately reaching for water, quality sleep becomes an impossible dream. For Kat and her husband, both dealing with TMJ and chronic mouth breathing, nighttime had become a cycle of disruption and exhaustion—until they discovered Simply Breathe.

The Problem: A Nightly Battle

Kat was a chronic mouth breather, suffering from the miserable consequences that come with sleeping with an open mouth. "I was having to wake up several times a night to get a drink, over and over again," Kat explains. The constant dry mouth wasn't just uncomfortable—it was destroying sleep quality and leaving her exhausted during the day.

For Kat, the problem was compounded by TMJ (temporomandibular joint disorder). She had been complaining to her dentist about "my mouth hanging open during the night and being woken up numerous times," searching desperately for a solution to this miserable cycle.

The Discovery: Overcoming Initial Fears

When Kat's dentist first suggested mouth taping, her reaction was immediate skepticism. "She was the one that said you've got to try this, and I sort of rejected that for a long time," Kat admits. The idea felt claustrophobic and intimidating.

What finally convinced Kat to try Simply Breathe was the quality difference she noticed compared to other products. "Friends of mine had tried the tape on Amazon, the little X cheap kind that just didn't work. And this was so different with covering your entire mouth, and the shape."

As someone who's "really particular about what I put on my face in terms of materials" and careful about avoiding toxic substances, Kat appreciated that Simply Breathe "hit every part of the checklist."

The Transformation: Life-Changing Results

The results were immediate and dramatic. The elimination of dry mouth meant "sleeping through the night, and because of it, more energy, and much better sleep."

For her husband, who had tried everything to address his snoring, the impact was equally impressive. After just one night, "he uses an app that measures his snore score, and it's cut it down." The mouth tape became essential during the two-week periods when his custom mouth guard needed to be replaced: "He would have not slept the entire time, had it not been for the tape."

The Comfort Factor: Why Simply Breathe is Different

What sets Simply Breathe apart, Kat discovered, is its thoughtful design for real-world use. During a recent illness when she was "coughing more than I had in my entire life," she had to remove and reapply the tape multiple times each night. "I would stick it to the back of my hand and cough and then put it back on. I did that several times a night, and it still stayed. That would never have worked with any other tape I've tried."

The gentle removal is equally important: "Every other tape that we've tried, ends up taking half your skin off in the morning, and is uncomfortable and irritating, and you don't have that problem with these."

A Simple Hack for Beginners

For those feeling anxious about mouth taping, Kat offers a practical tip: "My hack to start out was to cut the sides to come in closer... so it had a little crack at each side, and I could breathe out of that during the night." After a week or two of this modified approach, she felt completely comfortable using the full tape.

The Verdict: Life-Changing Sleep

Today, Kat and her husband can track their transformation with hard data. Using sleep tracking technology, Kat can "go back and look at five years’ worth of data now from the Sleep Number and look at how much my sleep changed." The difference is dramatic: "I used to wake 10 times a night or more and now, I'm lucky if I wake up once."

"I don't think I could sleep without it now," Kat concludes. 

Ready to transform your sleep like this couple did? Experience the Simply Breathe difference and discover what a full night of restful, dry-mouth-free sleep feels like.