Best sea sickness tablets for SWMBO?

[Garryt]

OK Guys... can you save me! So I don't have to sell my new boat.. what's the best sea sickness tablets you can recommend?

I'll never be allowed to go outside the marina after last weekend if I don't find a solution for SWMBO /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[studgies]

Glad you made it safe and sound, even with a slightly poorly SWMBO, Jim;s trip as cancelled due to weather later in the week so he is now heading off this Thursday.

As for sea sickness tablets. I also suffer on the odd occasion, the ones that work best for me are boots own or kwels, anything that contains erm I think it is scopoderm, they do patches on pescription that are much much better too.

Best prevention is to make sure you are well fed, watered, rested and above all warm, when I get cold the sickness is sure to follow!

Others say ginger helps etc.

As a sufferer all I can say is when she starts to feel poorly leave her alone!

 

[Woodlouse]

The best cure for sea sickness is to stand under a tree.

 

[gibbowolfie]

Well we talking prescription or not? There is an over the counter tablet not sold as a "motion" sickness tablet but is sold on a side effect as it speeds up your GI tract. The contained drug is called domperidone 10 ( as it's 10mg) and the trade name is buccastem which you'll have to ask for by name as it isn't sold for what you want it for. As always read the instructions!

 

[jimmynoboat]

I've tried all sorts (including the scopoderm patches) without much success. I now believe it is very much in the mind but I also agree with Simon, you need to be comfortable in all respects.

 

[jcmmarine]

Let her drive

My wife does not get seasick when she is driving. Apparently she is not alone, both in regards to seasickness and car sickness, having something to concentrate on works in many cases.

If it works, well, it allows me to get on with other things like navigation, engine checks, fishing etc.

 

[MiskinDriver]

Forget tablets - use the 'watch'. It delivers a small electric charge to the wrist and really does work. Available from Nauticalia (amongst others), its not cheap at £99 ish but it has worked for at least two people I regularly go out on boats with. One suffered severe motion sickness even on a canal! Now - no prob. While I have never suffered, the results with others have convinced me. And, frankly, if I am convinced by anything from Nauticalia (other than possibly the big magnet thingy) then its got to be good. Definitely worth a try. It has been the saving of my cruising life....

 

[w0tty]

Yep, quite agree with jcmmarine, and as jimmynoboat says,
its all in the mind .... get her mind concentrating on driving
the boat, and not thinking about being sick. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

I suffered in the Royal Navy and as a crew member on yachts
or Mobo's, I must have tried every brand of tablet out there
but to no avail. I soon found out that a particular brand of
tablet might work for one person, but not another.

I think you will have to experiment to find which remedy
works best for your wife. Another avenue you might explore
is wrist bands ..... they worked for me .... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[whisper]

Stugeron is the only thing that works for me and a couple of crew mates when going yachting in ropey weather.
Plus/or Ginger Cake.
Otherwise as said earlier, let/make her do the helming.

 

[DavidJ]

Surgical Wipes.
Seriously it works almost instantaneously. A couple of deep sniffs and seasickness goes away. It's used in hospitals where patients suffer from dizzyness. It must distract the nervous system or something??

 

[peterg]

another vote for Stugeron /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

I found helming doesn't help me forget about it and spent an entire very bumpy journey across Poole Bay hanging on to the cockpit rail of our Nimbus 31 feeding the seagulls /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif used Stugeron the following day and was much better /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Poignard]

I find that a lot depends on what you ate for breakfast or at the previous night's dinner. The "full English" breakfast is greatly enjoyed but may be regretted later if the sea is rough; and as for the 5-course dinner and selection of wines I enjoyed the night before leaving Morlaix last year and unwisely going out into a force 6....!

 

[Whitelighter]

I always found that when sailing a mug of bovril and dry crackers cured most seasickness. Don't know if it did anything other than took your mind off it, but it certainly settled the queesy feeling.

 

[l'escargot]

Stugeron, but they must be taken at least a couple of hours before getting on the boat - better still start the night before and continue taking them at the specified intervals. Very few remedies work if you leave it until the seasickness starts.

 

[Skyva_2]

Different pills suit different people. A French pharmacist will shrug at Stugeron and recommend 'Mercalm'. Take them well before sailing.

 

[Liselle]

Best ones we found are Boots own, "Boots Travel Calm." They are very good fast acting non drowsy. They work even if you have waited until you are feeling ill.

 

[jhr]

I find Stugeron helps but the critical thing, for me, is to keep my eyes fixed on something steady - usually the horizon, which is why many peeps recommend taking the helm. The dodgiest moments I've had are when I've had to focus on something on the boat for a while, and have ended up feeling quite iffy. All to do with sense of balance and your inner ear, so I'm told.

Not sure if ginger is an anti-emetic (tho' it may be) but I certainly find it easier to keep down than many other foodstuffs, when Ralph and Hughie are knocking at the door, so there's some truth in it; ginger nuts are particularly good in that respect.

Though I have met people who claim not to suffer from sea sickness, my analysis is that they haven't yet been out in rough enough conditions. Everyone gets it, sometimes.

Don't let SWMBO retreat to the cabin, either: fresh air helps.

 

[rubberduck]

My SWIMBO gets dizzy when downstairs, but not sick ,is this normal & is there a cure.
Told her used to cost me a lot of money to feel like that, but not impressed /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Cliveshep]

The poster who said being busy helps has a point 'cos I'm like Lord Nelson in only one respect - I get sick! Calm millpond conditions have made me feel bad but I think a lot of that was anticipating the trip too hard beforehand and setting off stressed! Contrarily, we got caught out in a small cabin boat (mobo) in absolutely foul weather, couldn't sit down because the boat was thrown around so violently and was so scared and concentrating on and working at keeping afloat/us alive and never noticed a thing sea-sick wise. Another time as a guest on a trawler in Torbay fishing off Portland & the Chesil I had nothing to do and had the worst time of my life with only thinking on how much longer I had to suffer to occupy my mind!

If your wife is like mine, something to take her mind of the boat's motion might well help her. My wife feels a diamond necklace, gold bracelets, gifts in the four figure region etc would work wonders (although more expensive than Dramamine!)

On a serious note again, having a distant horizon helps with inner ear balance it seems, and do not attempt to read. Staying out of the cabin works for me as well. When I was a kid nibbling on slices of cooking apple or sucking sherbet lemons also staved off travel sickness very successfully.

I deeply sympathise with your wife, but have you considered putting wheels on the bottom? (of the boat!)

 

[rubberduck]

Think wheels on her bottom could be fun,but need bigger boat to make it more interesting /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif