If RERAs are so bad, why aren't they a part of the AHI?

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Re: If RERAs are so bad, why aren't they a part of the AHI?

Post by mollete » Wed Oct 02, 2013 2:44 am

old dude wrote:None of the last several very technical posts do anything to dispel the notion that it's somewhat futile to go chasing better RERA numbers by adjusting pressures on a home machine once one's AHI is satisfactory, do they?
Oh yeah.

The original question.

Boy, that Jeff can really throw a thread off track, can't he?

As RERAs are the component that makes the AHI an RDI, I suppose it would have been more appropriate to word the question thusly:

Is a high RDI bad?
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Re: If RERAs are so bad, why aren't they a part of the AHI?

Post by mollete » Wed Oct 02, 2013 3:19 am

mollete wrote:Is a high RDI bad?
Yes.

TS, since
old dude wrote:my RERA number has been in the 3-5 range.
perhaps one of the initial posters may have offered some appropriate advice:
OhHelpMe wrote:SHADDUP!
old dude wrote: Now I have a sense of humor to rival anyone's, but I can discern the difference between good clean fun and smart-aleckness.
While I hate to disagree with anyone (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!), actually, I don't believe you do (or can). After a review of your previous 139 posts (especially those in Status Report (If Anyone Cares), "IMHO" you're overly-sensitive and prone to aggressive, self-defeating behavior.
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Re: If RERAs are so bad, why aren't they a part of the AHI?

Post by mollete » Wed Oct 02, 2013 3:34 am

mollete wrote:(especially those in Status Report (If Anyone Cares), "IMHO" you're overly-sensitive and prone to aggressive, self-defeating behavior.
Speaking of which:
old dude wrote:At least your doc didn't come on to your wife. Had we not been in a medical situation I would have punched the guy out...
old dude wrote:She's pretty but not the type that encourages bad behavior. Plus, she's 55.
if I was your wife, I would have punched you out.
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Re: If RERAs are so bad, why aren't they a part of the AHI?

Post by old dude » Wed Oct 02, 2013 7:48 am

mollete wrote:
mollete wrote:(especially those in Status Report (If Anyone Cares), "IMHO" you're overly-sensitive and prone to aggressive, self-defeating behavior.
Speaking of which:

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Re: If RERAs are so bad, why aren't they a part of the AHI?

Post by mollete » Wed Oct 02, 2013 8:58 am

old dude wrote:As an aside, I might respectfully submit that poring through 139 posts in an attempt to glean some nugget that supports one's largely irrelevant hypothesis about another's personality seems a little aggressive to me.
I would (respectfully) absolutely and totally disagree with that. AAMOF, if someone was going to comment about someone else's situation, not "gleaning" through all available information for clinical "nuggets" would be negligent.

TS, while reviewing data, there was some interesting history in re: what amounts to insufficient sleep (~4-5 hour periods). Now, "IMHO", if you take someone with AHI 131 and blow it down to 0.0, one would think they should be sleeping like a rock. That they are not suggests co-morbidity that generates insomnia (anxiety, anger, etc.). "Punching someone out" is not an acceptable solution to "coming on" (assuming that's what it was) to someone's wife, and whether it was meant to impress readers (I wasn't) or a threat that would have potentially been carried out (and if so, then you've got a BIG problem, and then move all the way over to "self-destructive behavior"), it at least gives a clue to underlying issue(s) that may prevent adequate/sufficient sleep.
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Re: If RERAs are so bad, why aren't they a part of the AHI?

Post by old dude » Wed Oct 02, 2013 9:54 am

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Re: If RERAs are so bad, why aren't they a part of the AHI?

Post by pikov22 » Wed Oct 02, 2013 10:30 am

mollete wrote:As RERAs are the component that makes the AHI an RDI, I suppose it would have been more appropriate to word the question thusly:
Is a high RDI bad?

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