Best sea sickness tablets for SWMBO?

[l'escargot]

Mercalm is also an antihistamine so works in the same way as Stugeron. Different drugs are licenced for different countries, I know you can't get Stugeron in the US but there is an equivalent - the important factor with that group of drugs is taking them well before the symptoms occur.

 

[Cliveshep]

Was that you peeping in my window? They were only small wheels, honest!

 

[rubberduck]

Its not how big they are but how you use them,or so I have been told /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[Vanilla]

How I sympathise with your swmbo as I get nearly always get sick sailing, even at anchor if there’s a swell, although it wears off after a couple of days on the water. Have even been sick on a Wayfarer when there’s been little wind. I can’t even stomach London buses (but then who can?). Women do suffer more from motion sickness than men, as do Asians compared with Caucasians, and no it’s not “all in the mind” but in the genes. I find Stugeron pretty good, but they make me crash out so best to develop some tolerance to this side effect by taking them for a day or so before hitting the water. Agree taking the helm helps but only if you can look at the horizon. Totally nauseating if you keep having to look at the compass. IMHO men are more likely to put their green tinge down to a hangover....Oooh she’s ducking now! Maybe this says something about the men I sail with?

 

[phanakapan]

I get sick. Really, really, I-want-to-die-right-now sick. My head goes weird, I've even nearly lost it at BOTH ends (don't ask..)

Solutions tried;
Boots own
Scopaderm (scopalamine stick on patches)
Sturgeron
The buzzy watch
Ginger in all sorts of forms
All have worked sometimes, but not always.

The best way is a combination of;
education- ie a Day skipper course; if she knows whats going on, and even in charge (ie make her skipper, or in charge of pre-trip passage planning) it will lessen anxiety
being totally warm, dry and feeling safe;
drugs, (as above) taken well in advance
not having to be the galley slave

All IMHO of course

 

[BrendanS]

there are some that find cannabis useful. Never tried it, but for many it works

 

[jcmmarine]

Tried the watch, did not work for her. (It only cost 79.99 Euros in Germany).
Wife is fine on the helm, but whatever we try, as soon as she goes below he feels ill.
Have now accepted this and just let her drive at sea.