Not saying this is a cure-all for everyone, but it's a good first thing to try:
My dad was diagnosed with sleep apnea. He was tired during the day and got bad migraines. They recommended a fancy apparatus but he instead sewed a golf ball into a small pocket on the back of his pjs. Like most folks, he only snored and suffocated himself when asleep on his back. So this way when he rolled from his side onto his back he woke up slightly and went back to his side. 100% cured him, no migraines since.
I did basically the same thing, but took three tennis balls, put them in a tube sock, and safety-pinned it to the back of a T-shirt. I found loose T-shirts didn't work quite as well as one that's a little tight.
The message I've been getting from my ENT is that he'd only advocate surgery if the patient wasn't tolerating the CPAP. I.e. at higher pressure settings it might be uncomfortable, and reshaping the airways could help with that.
For me, I just pretend I'm Prometheus in an interstellar cold-sleep casket. I love the mask -- badass!
The other crazy thing is that his face now looks very different than it did when I was a kid. Old pictures don't look like the same person, doesn't fit my memory, &c. Perhaps he died and was replaced with a deep-cover Soviet spy?
