Aww I see what you mean about the light too, I have to cover my eyes every morning because it comes in too bright and brightness also makes me feel ill for some reason. I have the light on in the hallway here at home or in the bathroom because I can shut the bedroom door nearly all the way but still see the things around me.

I know my pc affects me, if I stay on it too long too it will make me dizzy, so will watching the tv too closely or seeing brights lights on it so I try and limit to pc time now but sometimes I stay on too long.

I've never heard of that med, but are you in the US? I'm in the UK and we have different names for some of our medications but they can still be the same sorts of meds if you get me. I know if I take my one tablet and stay up too late with it, it makes me feel sleepy but in a weird way, but I need it aswel as it helps stop pain which is good.

I put my thumb on under the cheek I'm lying on and shield my eys that way every morning. If I dont pin my thumb down with my cheek I will move it or it will fall away from my face so maybe thats worth atry, lol. I have also worn beany type hats at times, I find the looser ones better but they move around more when you move and can come off. But if I have the tigher wool ones they make me itch and make my forhead feel funny and I can get too hot. I still sometimes use them though and just put it down over my eyes.

I am like you that I cannot have anything near my mouth or nose, I hate to feel warm air on me or breathe in warm air too, so I will turn over if my girlfriend faces me in the night because I hate to feel her breathing. That sounds terrible but it's not meant to be that bad. Maybe you could try the hat thing and just pull it over your eyes a bit.

Once or twice I even put my head under the pillow. It kinda sits on my head, I have it angled a bit so it will be a bit on the other pillows behind me so it doesn't fall over my face, like a kinda ramp if you look at it side on. That way I can breath and it shuts out any noises that might be keeping you awake. I'm completely deaf in one ear anyway but when I wasn't I used to do this a few times. My girlfriend snores too and that keeps me awake alot, so I just turn over and lie on my good ear to block out the noise too, lol.

I know one thing too, that being tired can cause episodes of vertigo more aswel, I dont know why, but thats what everyone says about Menieres, that being tired and stressed can set vertigo off, and chocolate for some odd reason ??? Also alcohol can affect Menieres Disease too. Oh and I know some people might not know what Menieres is but it isn't an actuall Disease incase anyone thinks it is. It's an inner ear problem and each time you have attacks of vertigo it can damage the ballance organs in the ear that has the problem. The damage can be that it starts to cause hearing loss, but not always, my hearing in my hearing ear is fine when it doesn't play up which is good. It is thought to be due to fluid and salt levels in your inner ears but no ne knows for sure exactly what it is.

If you do get to the point of having a hearing loss and they can be sure that the deaf ear is the one with Menieres then they can do something about it. They can give you Gentacimin injections. It is an anti-biotic that was used years ago, but when they gave it patients, they found that it often caused a permanent hearing loss. Upon investigations over the years they discovered that Gentacimin affects these ballance organs too, it destrys them. Without ballance organs in your ear you would be deaf. If you've lost hearing through Menieres enough then the ENTs can inject Gentacimin into your ears.

You might need a few injections for it to destroy the ballance organs in the affected ear which should stop the vertigo. Menieres can go into both ears at times but they cant give you these injections unless your hearing is bad in the affected ears as it will permanantly take your hearing. My vertigo was so bad that I was begging to have the injections even into my hearing side even if it meant leaving me completely deaf because it really is nasty as no doubt alot of you here will know. I would never wish it on my worst enemy. The most we can do is try to learn more about it and see if we can find a pattern that sets it off.