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Can RERA’s be eliminated or at least reduced?
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Can RERA’s be eliminated or at least reduced?
My events are split between H’s and CA’s, and a very rare OA. (Maybe 2 or 3 a month) The events can happen at high or low pressure. 

My question is: Is there any correctable adjustment that can reduce RERA’s?
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RE: Can RERA’s be eliminated or at least reduced?
Yes...turn off RERA event tracking. Works great!
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RE: Can RERA’s be eliminated or at least reduced?
Best way to reduce/eliminate RERAs is to raise your lower pressure a little bit every few days until they are gone or minimized. Sometimes it only takes a tiny adjustment to do it.
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Moving from APAP to BiPAP seriously reduced my RERAs. It took a bit of fiddling about with EPAP and PS but I've got it down to around 1 or lower. I do have the occasional blow out where it leaps up to 2 or 3. I got the BiPAP specifically to treat RERA and it is working for me. BiPAP is also a lot more comfortable than APAP
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RE: Can RERA’s be eliminated or at least reduced?
(11-21-2017, 03:41 PM)Rcgop Wrote: My events are split between H’s and CA’s, and a very rare OA. (Maybe 2 or 3 a month) The events can happen at high or low pressure. 

My question is: Is there any correctable adjustment that can reduce RERA’s?


I have to agree with most of the posters above. When I first started out, I experienced a lot of Rera’s too. At first, I didn’t give Rera’s much thought, until I realized how much it disrupted my sleep.

With the help of good folk here, I started to raise my minimum pressure a little at a time, usually by .5 until I saw a reduction in Rera’s. All in all, I ended up raising the pressure only by 1.5 over a couple weeks time. This did the trick, and also elimates flow limation if that is a problem.
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(11-22-2017, 08:57 AM)OpalRose Wrote:
(11-21-2017, 03:41 PM)Rcgop Wrote: My events are split between H’s and CA’s, and a very rare OA. (Maybe 2 or 3 a month) The events can happen at high or low pressure. 

My question is: Is there any correctable adjustment that can reduce RERA’s?


I have to agree with most of the posters above.  When I first started out, I experienced a lot of Rera’s too.   At first, I didn’t give Rera’s much thought, until I realized how much it disrupted my sleep.  

With the help of good folk here, I started to raise my minimum pressure a little at a time, usually by .5 until I saw a reduction in Rera’s.  All in all, I ended up raising the pressure only by 1.5 over a couple weeks time.  This did the trick, and also elimates flow limation if that is a problem.

Sound advice.
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(11-21-2017, 05:05 PM)Sleeprider Wrote: Yes...turn off RERA event tracking.  Works great!

That works as well   Laugh-a-lot
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