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Seasickness

Do you suffer from seasickness? Have you found any remedies and/or preventitve measures for seasickness that works? Tell us some of your most interesting and/or embarassing stories that involved someone getting seasick.

Here is a link which describes seasickness and provides some suggestions:

https://www.travel-ascending.com/seasick.htm

Edited: malexander on 10th Jul, 2004 - 2:09pm

Seasickness

I have seen people suffer with this, even travelling in a car can make them sick. Once I went to Tobago on a ship that rocked from side to side and it did leave me feeling a bit upset, but I was not sick. I have heard there is a specific tablet that you can take that gives relief, but it must be taken a couple hours before as it does not work instantaneously.

Seasickness Health & Special Psychology

Oh Boy do I get seasick! I used to live in Bremerton and had to take the ferry across Puget Sound to Seattle to work every day. There wasn't any pill that worked for me, so I would hide out in the bathrooms below deck till the engines were shut down. That meant we were coming in to dock.

Here in Waldport I can look at the ocean and I am fine, but there is a real nice little restaurant that is right on the Alsea River, it floats on the river. As long as the weather is calm I can sit by the window and not be bothered. BUT if it is storming out and the water is choppy, then I get seasick, I have to leave the restaurant or I will lose it.

I also get carsick. If I am a passenger I have to be sure to look straight ahead and not off to the side. It is the rolling/rocking of the horizon that sets me off.

Seasickness

I'm fortunate that I don't suffer sea sickness in general, the water would have to be really bad for it to affect me. I think I've only felt queasy a couple of times, and those times have been when we have been on a ferry in the middle of storms. I can assure you it's not nice, especially as you have to see everyone else becoming ill around you.

I believe that there is now a bracelet that you can get though from the chemist/pharmacy, and it has nodes on that you put over your wrist, and it's supposed to stop sea sickness altogether.

I don't know whether it works or not, but if you are badly affected, it might just be worth checking out.

Seasickness

I don't have that problem as long as the boat or ship is not moving too much..if the boat is moving a lot then yes, I get very sick and feel like I cannot breathe!