What are some ways to help fix, cure or just improve sleep apnea?

Several: Weight loss or just avoiding sleeping on the back can improve sleep apnea. There are several medical treatments for sleep apnea (cpap, dental devices, surgery). If you have sleep apnea you should have it evaluated since untreated sleep apnea can cause not only daytime symptoms (sleepiness, fatigue), but can also lead to high blood pressure, heart attack, heart failure, and stroke.

Different treatments: Treatment for sleep apnea can involve CPAP which is a machine that blows air into the mouth or nose at night to hold open the airways. Or, surgery, dental appliances, weight loss, and other treatments can be successful. Overall, CPAP has the highest short term success rate, but not necessarily long term as many people stop using it because it is so inconvenient.

Surgery, weight loss: For many people, weight reduction can improve obstructive sleep apnea. For some, surgery can expand the upper airway and improve osa as well. CPAP is the most common method of treating osa but oral appliances are quite effective. Provent is another alternative to CPAP therapy and some patients have success wtih this. Since everyone is different, the treatment will vary.

Treat or cure.: You can treat sleep apnea with a CPAP or BiPAP mask worn at night. If you're overweight, you can actually cure sleep apnea with weight loss; then you wouldn't need the mask.

Some helpful hints: There are things that can be done to help lessen symptoms and depending on severity, may eliminate them. Weight loss, avoidance of sedating chemicals or medications, avoiding supine sleep can help. There is an oral device that a dentist can make and some medical therapies from an ENT that can help. Pap therapy is still the gold standard treatment and splints the airways open.