john_morris_uk
Well-Known Member
If you find yourself needing to get Stugeron into the blood stream quickly, then allowing it to dissolve under your tongue is very effective. If you swallow a tablet and are sick, you never know how much of the drug has got into you, but the mucous membrane of your mouth allow the drug into your system very quickly in my experience.
Even if she is sick, try very hard to still make the whole sailing/cruising experience a good one. Make the passages short, so you are not wishing you are going to die for 24 hours or so. A few hours of seasickness followed by a nice time in some new harbour and the sickness is soon forgotten. Its also MUCH better the next time out - so long as there's a reasonably short time between trips and your body hasn't forgotten the experience too much.
I get sick sometimes and I hate it - because I also know that within a day or so my brain and body will have adapted (again) and I can be head down in the engine or bilge and not even notice that the boat is rolling all over the place. Once the immunity has built up cooking and going below becomes a pleasure and the crew get annoyed that I am sitting reading a book and want me to get out on deck with them.
Cold wet and tired and hungry is not good.
Don't believe people when they say its all in the mind - they are talking complete nonsense. You CANNOT MAKE yourself immune, but you can remain positive about the experience which leads to:
When sea-sickness is bad, it can lead you to make some poor decisions, so you have to have an iron will to keep doing the right thing even when you are feeling very bad. That does require mind over matter!
As others have implied actually being sick does help.
I always find that by the time I have had a lie down and a sleep, and I wake up again, I am normally cured. I can also go years without being sick - and SWMBO is rarely ill on a yacht but can throw up for England on a ferry so it often just depends on you and your boat and the conditions.
Even if she is sick, try very hard to still make the whole sailing/cruising experience a good one. Make the passages short, so you are not wishing you are going to die for 24 hours or so. A few hours of seasickness followed by a nice time in some new harbour and the sickness is soon forgotten. Its also MUCH better the next time out - so long as there's a reasonably short time between trips and your body hasn't forgotten the experience too much.
I get sick sometimes and I hate it - because I also know that within a day or so my brain and body will have adapted (again) and I can be head down in the engine or bilge and not even notice that the boat is rolling all over the place. Once the immunity has built up cooking and going below becomes a pleasure and the crew get annoyed that I am sitting reading a book and want me to get out on deck with them.
Cold wet and tired and hungry is not good.
Don't believe people when they say its all in the mind - they are talking complete nonsense. You CANNOT MAKE yourself immune, but you can remain positive about the experience which leads to:
When sea-sickness is bad, it can lead you to make some poor decisions, so you have to have an iron will to keep doing the right thing even when you are feeling very bad. That does require mind over matter!
As others have implied actually being sick does help.
I always find that by the time I have had a lie down and a sleep, and I wake up again, I am normally cured. I can also go years without being sick - and SWMBO is rarely ill on a yacht but can throw up for England on a ferry so it often just depends on you and your boat and the conditions.
