My Amerisleep AS3 Unboxing Video (Surprise, my voice is ridiculous!) If I can (just barely) do it, you can totally tackle a bed-in-a-box by yourself. Updated 10/15/22 Amerisleep's AS5 was recently featured as the 'Best Soft Mattress in a Box' by Good Housekeeping , with the panel of reviewers noting: Pressure relief for side sleepers Taller than other boxed mattresses Good customer service Amerisleep Mattress Reviews We've been happy Amerisleep customers since purchasing our first AS3 mattress more than 9 years ago. Now we also have an AS2 and an AS4 (the AS3 is still our favorite). Born with chronic insomnia (even as a baby - my family insists I was a nightmare), the struggle to improve my sleep is my life. My husband, the overly-analytical mechanical engineer, was initially skeptical of a mail-order mattress, but he was quickly won over. 2012: Wine glass test, sans wine. I was fairly confident our brand-new mattress would pass with f
Sexy Nerd and I have been together for more than 11 years. Keep this in mind while reading the following conversation we had yesterday:
Sexy Nerd: Hey! You know what I noticed the other night? You have sleep apnea.
Me: Wha?!
Sexy Nerd: You just stopped breathing the other night. You weren't breathing for, like, a minute. Then, you were gasping for breath. Then, you woke up. That must have been the cause of your insomnia problem all along. Sleep apnea!
Me: So, you think I've always stopped breathing for dangerous amounts of time, every night that you've known me?
Sexy Nerd: Yeah!
Me: And...you never noticed...in more than eleven years?
Sexy Nerd: ...
Me: And how long were you going to wait to see if I started breathing again? A minute seems like kind of a long time, don't you think?
Sexy Nerd: ...I...didn't want to risk waking you...because I love you...
So, apparently this is what my (most likely shortened) future holds:
Sexy Nerd: Hey! You know what I noticed the other night? You have sleep apnea.
Me: Wha?!
Sexy Nerd: You just stopped breathing the other night. You weren't breathing for, like, a minute. Then, you were gasping for breath. Then, you woke up. That must have been the cause of your insomnia problem all along. Sleep apnea!
Me: So, you think I've always stopped breathing for dangerous amounts of time, every night that you've known me?
Sexy Nerd: Yeah!
Me: And...you never noticed...in more than eleven years?
Sexy Nerd: ...
Me: And how long were you going to wait to see if I started breathing again? A minute seems like kind of a long time, don't you think?
Sexy Nerd: ...I...didn't want to risk waking you...because I love you...
So, apparently this is what my (most likely shortened) future holds:
CPAP machine - no way, jose
*Update*
Since writing this post, I've had a sleep study and have determined I have many sleep problems, but sleep apnea isn't one of them.
