Travel sickness........ I'm crook!

Royce, that sounds very severe. I would be talking to a doctor.

I feel for you mate.

Get a seat where you can see the road looking forward not out the side.

Helped a lot with the kids.

Cheers

Hi Royce.
I work on the water and I agree with Allan B. If I was you id get a check up at the doctor. It might be a bit more than motion sickness. I might be wrong but. Gust my bit. Brian.

As others have said sounds more serious then travel sickness. But try and sit in a forward seat where you can concentrate on the road ahead. And pretend you are driving, but coaches are bad especially up the back.
Cheers Pete

Hi Royce

Motion sickness is the pits,
The US military have spent millions on trying to cure it
Google sea sickness etc you will get heaps of info.

The best remedy i have found and use is Blackmores travel calm
herbal based on ginger no side effects like Quells and stemitals, drink real ginger beer like Bundaberg and any ginger foods Daza suggested as well.
You will also find on the interweb the best food to avoid before travelling.
When im travelling on water or in the 4wd or on my bike for long trips i will have a few Blackmores Travel calm dose the trick for me.

Rob

Royce,

I can sympathise with you, as I also suffer from severe motion sickness. On a bad day I cannot when walking change direction abruptly without feeling queasy. No boat or bus travel for me, the smallest planes I will go on are those that travel between the capital cities, and then only when loaded with medication. As for car travel, I have to drive if the trip is more than about 20 minutes long. I have learnt to drive very smoothly, no sudden braking or sharp cornering.

I do take a drug called Cinnarizine. Nothing else works. It can only be prescribed by a specialist and then only with the approval of the Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Administration in Canberra. It helps, but is not foolproof. If I do get sick I am laid up for 3 days.

Yep, i get it bad too. When i was a kid, i would get it travelling about 5km into town. Now i still get it, along with sea sickness, plane sickness, i even get very severe morning sickness which requires hospitalisation for rehydration etc, although i am not sure alot of you can say that LOL.

I found with my last bub, they prescribed me restavit (it's a sleeping tablet but also anti hystamine) and this helped things a bit, but no good if you are driving as it zonks you out.

My only tip, is have something light to eat before you leave so you have something in your stomach, other than that, no tips, just a huge amount of sympathy. i feel for you.

Hi all,
After a work injury (neck) 10 yrs ago I started to get very severe sea sickness, As I worked for a shipbuilding company and did sea trials I tried everything to no avail. For the last 2 yrs I have been taking "Serc" betahistine dihydrochloride. I then take ginger tablets leading up to travel.. It works to date.

I have done that trip a few times by bus (both ways) at night and it is one of the worst trips for feeling a bit seedy on.

I don’t get travel sickness in usual circumstances, but there is something about that road and the way the buses drive it at night that seems generate travel sickness

I wonder whether it has something to do with the fact that whilst it is a fairly windy road it is also a high speed road that the buses travel at a fair rate of knots – greater ‘g’ forces and more changes of direction?

I had a similar problem on an interstate coach many years ago.
The coach driver suggested a move from the back of the bus to midway between the front and rear wheels.
The driver said that was the most stable place, and the vertical movement was more than halved compared with sitting in the front or rear.
It worked.
Cheers

Our 12yr old suffers motion sickness bigtime , only cure we've found that works each and every time is Scopalamine patches , 1 patch behind the ear is good for 72hrs , biggest problem is supply , they are not an over the counter chemist item in Australia so we get ours from NZ by buying online , not exactly cheap at $20 per packet of 2 patches but beats having the boy upchuck in the car / bus /train /plane , funny bit is he has never gotten sick when on a boat.

This has been a long term enemy of mine as well.

There is a very simple solution (sometimes not always practical). Basically, motion sickness (MS) is caused by the fluid in your ears telling your brain one thing (for example that your moving) while your eyes tell your brain something differant (your still). So when you sit on a coach, your eyes see the coach itself and everything is stationary however as it pitches and rolls around on the road, your ears tell you brain you are moving. Your brain deals with these mixed signals by bringing on nausea etc etc. This is the same as if you are reading while in a car. The book, through your eyes, tell your brain you are stationary however your ears tell your brain you are moving.

Now to stop the mixed signals.......close your eyes. It means your only getting 1 set of signals going to your brain and prevents MS. I would imagine once MS has started to come on it may be too late and like I said, it may not always be practical but it will work.

The eating of lollies/chewing on gum has slight effects on this theory as it slightly changes the fluids in your ears as you suck and swallow.

They say.... When you get MS, for first hour you think your going to die and after that, you wish you were already dead!

Be careful when using prochlorperazine and metoclopramide (generic names...Google 'em). Take only one at a time.

There are many side effects...again Google is your friend. Possibly the worst is an occulargyric crisis...very scary and requires urgent attention. An early warning sign of having too much of these medications is muscle stiffness and rigidity...you can literally freeze up..urgent medical invention is required. Usually not fatal but very distressing, painful and uncomfortable. These medications are "related" to the older major tranquilizers aka anti-psychotic medications and can give susceptible people significant side-effects (The newer types of anti-psychotics tend to be more tolerable...sort of). Note: this means these can also be sedating for many folk...not good to be driving etc etc...Check with your doctor about when and how much to take. These medications are good at the right time and doses.

I take the ginger extracts when flying and these seem to help. But when I'm really crook and I'm turning inside out, the above mentioned medications work great...usually as an injection.