anti motion sickness glasses

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Being someone who suffers extremely badly from seasickness( 25%of my sailing) i was suckered into a set--useless!!
Best thing so far is the electric wristwatch. Cuts down most of my seasickness but does need to be constantly joggled over the correct nerve. Still get sick from time to time
 
There was a thread appeared on here when they were fairly new, it seems some people really swear by them, and others less impressed, which appears to be the general consensus for most anti-seasickness gadgets...

If I can find it later i'll post the link for you.
 
Daydream believer said:
Being someone who suffers extremely badly from seasickness( 25%of my sailing) i was suckered into a set--useless!!
Best thing so far is the electric wristwatch. Cuts down most of my seasickness but does need to be constantly joggled over the correct nerve. Still get sick from time to time
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You mean useless for you, there will be plenty of people who have tried 'your' electric wristwatch who say they are useless. It does seem that all the main gadgets help a number of sufferers.
Perhaps our first aid kits should include one of each of these gadgets in the hope that one, at least, will work?
 
Interesting.......

Has anyone tried them to combat the effects of Meniers Disease?

May
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Glasses that replicate the natural horizon are unlikely, surely, to do anything if the natural horizon is already visible. I can imagine they might have some effect if you remain below as most of the French Navy people would be so one would suspect, if they work at all, that best effect would not be found on deck unless in horizonless weather.

Who knows - but a damn sight more likely to work than electric jockstraps or acupuncture bracelets which must be pure hokum. Pills work, that is a scientifically proven fact, some a re more effective than others but in my experience Stugeron are by far the most reliable as long as they are taken according to the instructions. Side effects however may make any pill less useful in practice.
But as imho seasickness is 80% psychological who can tell what witchcraft may have an effect?
This one at least, is based on a scientific principle that at least sounds credible which is more than you can say for many seasickness "remedies".
 
steer the boat

ytd said:
I saw a reasonably positive review of these http://www.force4.co.uk/9304/Force-4-Anti-Motion-Sickness-Glasses.html
in one of the magazines.

Anyone used them successfully? SWMBO has tried everything else.
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Best, repeat, BEST thing is to have the person with motion sickness steer the boat. Think about it. Have you ever heard of a person getting car sick when they are driving...almost impossible.

My wife used to get sea sick while walking on a non-floating dock. We are circumnavigating and she never gets sick under any conditions. The body can "learn" how to handle motion...it took her several months and me insisting on her driving the boat...she was never sick while driving and her body became accustomed to motion.

Hope this helps someone else.

Bill
 
BeBe said:
Best, repeat, BEST thing is to have the person with motion sickness steer the boat. Think about it.
Bill
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Does not work for me!
Plus crew cannot helm forever
Tried those patches for behind the ear once, started with it the day before in the office so i could atune myself. Within 3-4 hours I became so ill i had to spend a couple of hours in the sick room until i was able to drive home
 
BeBe said:
Best, repeat, BEST thing is to have the person with motion sickness steer the boat. Think about it.
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Sure, it's well known, but it doesn't work for everyone. Never worked for my mum in decades of sailing, but she's fine as long as she can lie down flat.

MASH said:
Who knows - but a damn sight more likely to work than electric jockstraps or acupuncture bracelets which must be pure hokum.
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Not sure about that. A friend of mine, having been horribly seasick the first time he joined us, came equipped the following year with pills galore and also a set of those bands. Being a rational, scientific sort of chap he insisted that the bands couldn't possibly work, but bought them anyway so that he could say he'd bought every remedy on the shelf.

One day during the trip it was a bit lumpy, and someone said to him that evening "bet you're glad you took your pills today!". Turned out he hadn't, but still felt fine. He did have the wristbands on, which he'd forgotten all about. He was quite annoyed by this, as it suggested that the "stupid" bands worked. So he decided the next day he'd take the pills and leave off the wristbands.

Somewhere I have the picture of him that day, lying in a bunk with a pillow over his head and a bucket nearby.

So it looks like they worked for him.

Pete
 
prv said:
Being a rational, scientific sort of chap he insisted that the bands couldn't possibly work, but bought them anyway so that he could say he'd bought every remedy on the shelf.

One day during the trip it was a bit lumpy, and someone said to him that evening "bet you're glad you took your pills today!". Turned out he hadn't, but still felt fine. He did have the wristbands on, which he'd forgotten all about. He was quite annoyed by this, as it suggested that the "stupid" bands worked. So he decided the next day he'd take the pills and leave off the wristbands.

Somewhere I have the picture of him that day, lying in a bunk with a pillow over his head and a bucket nearby.
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SWMBO suffers from car sickness quite often, but NEVER if she wears the bands on her wrists. She can tell by the weather whether she is likely to suffer, so they always go on. Prior to using the bands we would have to stop a couple of times per trip 7 times out of 10.

Strangely she has not suffered from sea sickness.

Regards

Ian
 
I think the only sure fire way to combat sea sickness is to sit under a tree :D I always carry stugaron on board in case someone gets sea sick. IMHO it's the one thing that usually works, but not always.
 
ianfr said:
SWMBO suffers from car sickness quite often
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Strangely she has not suffered from sea sickness.
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For the last few years I've been (touch wood) fairly safe from seasickness whether on deck or below, even mixing paint two decks down in the focsle mid-ocean.

However, I regularly feel a little queasy in a car if someone else is driving, and trying to read anything will make me positively ill. Feel ill in buses and coaches too.

Pete
 
Seasickness has been an expensive curse for me :( 4 boats in as many years and about 5K spent on costs for around 15 sailing outings!!

I would feel ill on a floating pontoon but bought a Drascombe longboat anyway but the two trips I had into the Solent I fell badly ill even though conditions were fine. I then bought a bigger Folksong 26 hoping it would plough through the waves rather than bob up and down but after losing probably 3K on transportation, mooring, storing etc I sold it half way through the season :rolleyes: When moored I would feel instantly queasy and break out into a sweat if two boats went by :(

Determined not to give up on sailing I thought I would stay within Chichester Harbour and just go out on calm days even if it was just motoring about. So I bought a Drascombe Drifter and to my amazement the initial severe sea sickness has disappeared and I can go out in rougher stuff if I make sure I have sailed the day before within the harbour so I am more used to the motion - FANTASTIC - so as a result bought my dream boat a Crabber. I even sat in my boat for 8 hours as it tipped up and down in pitching waves whilst at anchor - MARVELOUS, even scoffed a cream tea and drank coffee!!

My seasickness isn't cured it's just suddenly become a lot less - probably the same as most people now - I can handle that :)

Also it seems the vast majority of people suffer, all the great sailors I have read about so for - it's part and parcel of sailing for most, they all still sail, it's another hardship to put up with. I expect to feel queezy to thoroughly ill on most of my future passages but will still sail...
 
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My wife has always tended towards seasickness, though she has got a lot better since she learned to Windsurf - she claims that it taught her how to balance and almost cured the seasickness.

Many years ago we crossed Biscay on a large car ferry - one of those seriously big Brittany Ferries. As usual, my poor wife came down with the dreaded mal de mer and sent me along to the pharmacy for tablets. When I arrived, there was a queue (it was quite rough) and the person in front of me was one of the stewardesses. I expressed surprise that someone that suffered from seasickness would willingly work on a boat and she told me that she could not imagine doing any other job!
 
35mm said:
I think the only sure fire way to combat sea sickness is to sit under a tree :D I always carry stugaron on board in case someone gets sea sick. IMHO it's the one thing that usually works, but not always.
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Only time I used Stugeron I was sick as a dog. Tried again after a couple of hours. Sick again:D:mad:

If it works for you fine. Invention of the Devil for me. :)

Regards

Ian
 
Many years ago, Mrs pvb (who suffers from sea sickness) read somewhere that ginger prevents it. So, rather than Stugeron, she consumed most of a packet of ginger nuts (no jokes, please). Then spent most of the trip in the heads...
 
I am regularly seasick. Years ago i used to be on the verge of just jumping overboard & ending it all.
I now accept it as an occupational hazard & try to tell myself that it will pass in a few hours & have developed a positive attitude to it. I am still incapacitated a lot & if my family are with me they cannot understand how I do this.
One thing I try to do is sleep on the boat the night before to get used to the motion& leave ASAP in the morning. To help stop pre departure nerves
I drink lots of water
I time going to the loo just after a vomit. I find that for a few minutes afterwards I feel OK. I use this to nip to the heads whilst I can.
I always advise my crew to do this if they are sick as well as it is uncomfortable wanting a p... & cannot raise the effort to go below.
I have a bucket in a strop on the stern( the lucky sick bucket) complete with cord attached ready for anyone who wants to chuck up
Rules are- it is ok to be sick but tell me first so I can be ready ie with the bucket to hand- if you are going to spew do not do it below. If you have to chuck up below, first place is the bog. Second place the bog sink third place the main sink. Anywhere else & you clean it up yourself- sick or not!!

My wife is always amazed that I sort out the sickies & a bucket full does not worry me. But babies nappies !!!!! No way !!!

A horrible subject but if needs be- must do
 
Daydream believer said:
Being someone who suffers extremely badly from seasickness( 25%of my sailing) i was suckered into a set--useless!!
Best thing so far is the electric wristwatch. Cuts down most of my seasickness but does need to be constantly joggled over the correct nerve. Still get sick from time to time
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+1 for the electric wristwatch.
 
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