Reliefband users

[pugwash]

Serious question. I have been dogged by seasickness all my life and thrown up in every ocean. A few years back, before they were known here, I bought a Reliefband for a vast sunm in the US. It didn't work for me because the nerves on my wrist are deep down and I can't keep the electrodes in contact with the right spot. I have to hold the device in place with the other hand, which isn't much help, and it is easily dislodged by any wrist action as well as the sleeve. So I don't use it but my two daughters found it helpful when pregnant.

I am now going off on a trip in the Southern Ocean and a visiting surgeon told me to try using it over what he called the Clapham Junction of nerves midway between the collarbone and ear on the right side. He said this is the spot the cop tries to hit when he wields his truncheon: a direct hit can temporarily paralyse you.

Today I tried it, putting the device over Clapham Junction with gaffa tape. The feeling of an electric tingling going up and around your ear is very strange and rather soothing and the thing won't easily be dislodged. So it might work.

However the instructions specifically say only the wrist should be used. Nowhere else.

My question is, does anybody have experience with this thing? Any doctors out there who could advise me whether, in princoiple, the neck is just as good and safe? My surgeon friend whom I am unable to contact for the moment thought there was no problem but he was being jocular at dinner and I couldn't press him too closely. I need a second opinion.

Any thoughts most welcome. Thanks.

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[Talbot]

I would write to the manufacturer. They are being sold via nauticalia, so there is a source of information.

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[StephenSails]

I sell quite a few of these gadgets per month, I do not get seasick allthough at times I have probably been asking for it (big drinking sessions in Alderney then sailing back in to big wind and sea). I have never had any bad feedback and it is the only product where customers of mine have actually bothered to write to me by hand and commend it! In some cases I have had letters saying how it has changed peoples lives, this includes cancer sufferers and expectant mothers with severe morning sickness. It seems to be a great product for those that need it. I cannot vouch for it myself other than it seems to be a good product from my perspective.

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[TheBoatman]

You asked a serious question and this is a serious reply. If your going to do an ocean passage have you considered letting yourself get seasick because after about 24 hours you'll suddenly get "well" and be alright for the rest of the trip. I know the thought of being seasick for 24 hours should not be taken lightly and you will probably feel like committing suicide but 24 hours later you should be ok without any Dr Feelgood remedies. Your only problem after that will be when you reach land again and get "landsickness" for another 24 hrs.

Peter.

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[Talbot]

<<after about 24 hours you'll suddenly get "well" and be alright for the rest of the trip.>>
Doesnt always work like that. Have known people who are great until weather deteriorates again, and then when they get accustomed to that are fine until weather deteriorates again.

Nelson used to get sick every time he went to sea, which is one of the reasons he spent so little time on land.

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[pugwash]

Don't worry, Peter, I've tried that. When I sailed the Atlantic I dined on Kwells all the way and it was a desire to get off the chemicals that led me to the Reliefband. Thanks to you and the others for your interest, however. I have already written to the manufacturer in Seattle who stuck by the isntruction to use it only on the wrist, hence my question here. I'll give it a go and see what happens. My sea-bag is full of Kwells and patches so if it doesn't work I've got back-up.

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[Aardee]

Whatever harm it does can't be any more painful that ripping a length of gaffer tape from your "Clapham Junction".

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