seasick 'watch' - anyone tried it?

[Guest]

seasick \'watch\' - anyone tried it?

I've just had a catalogue through the post from 'Windward Marine'. They advertise a watch-like device that injects small electrical signals into the wrist and claims to cure/prevent seasickness. As a sufferer, I've tried most things with less than 100% success and at £100 it is an expensive experiment - has anyone had any experience of it?

 

[mica]

Re: seasick \'watch\' - anyone tried it?

Hi John,

Not tried it, and it does sound expensive for something you do not know if it will work until you have paid out the cash.

I am not seasick personally, but I have found a tape, which at the modest price of £4.99 was willing to buy and try out on any of our crew who were feeling ill. Unfortunately I have not had the opportunity to put it to the test.

Visit their site and read all about it. www.travelwell.co.uk

To purchase it online I think they charge £14.99, but I purchased mine for £4.99 from Comet's. Supposedly also available at Boots and other outlets, but you will find all the details on their site.

It is quite an interesting theory, based on a beat disguised with a pleasant tune, which is supposed to confuse the ear and have an effect on the gut. Researched from the drum beat used on Viking ships.

The tape is endorsed by Ellen McArthe, although she herself does not suffer from sea sickness.

Any how, I thought your might be interested as a cheaper alternative to the watch.

Regards and sympathies,
MICA

MICA

 

[pugwash]

It works if you\'re pregnant

I bought one of these"Relief Bands" in Seattle two years ago on the basis that I could rent it out to my two pregnant daughters. Some hope. But it worked marvellously for them. Each had her morning sickness cured immediately. I also tried it on a friend who got queasy during some gentle sailing in Plymouth Harbour and it worked in three minutes.

However its operation is contingent on the metal studs at the back of the watch making good contact with the nerves on the wrist. In my case, as soon as I bend my hand inwards the contact is lost. The "watch" is disrupted by any sort of tight cuff and the movements required in ordinary work. So for me it didn't work unless I held it in place with the other hand, not much cop when you're trying to sheet in your jenny on a stormy night.

A few days after this, however, I happened to meet socially a professor of surgery. He was immediately familiar with the theory of the thing and says it's not quack medicine. "You should put it just at the bottom of your neck on the right side," he said. "That's the Clapham Junction of nerves that the policeman tries to hit with his baton." So I did that and the result was (literally) electric. I had tiny pulses going around the top of my ear, and even when the contacts were shifted a centimetre or two either way, it still worked. What I have to do now is find a way of holding it in place. Elastoplast would work but I don't like the idea of stripping it off again. Some sort of elasticated "choker" would be best, because it could be removed easily.

The electrical contact is greatly improved if you use gel that you smear on the skin from a tube, but I don't know how long it lasts.

I intend to persevere this season. Meanwhile, I suggest the first thing you should do is find one in a chandlery and get your shop manager to take it out of the box so you can check how sensitive are the nerves of your own wrist. If you can't keep it exactly in position it won't work. If you can feel the pulse in your finger as the watch is moved around quite a large area, you have the right anatomy for it and you should definitely try it.

Price? I'd pay anything to avoid seasickiness.

 

[HaraldS]

Re: seasick \'watch\' - anyone tried it?

So far the successrate using relief bands on our boat was 50:50. But also the only on two test persons.

I originaly bought one of the disposable ones to give it a try and it worked great for the friend of my younger son. Many times.

My son had never tried it and left it courteously to his friend, but he was suffering himself. So I got some more, and my young son, convinced it would work for him aswell put it on, but was seasick within 30 minutes in a choppy sea. He tried again and claims it absoltely has no effect on him and he doesn't like the tickling.

 

[Guest]

Re: seasick \'watch\' - anyone tried it?

Many thanks for all the helpful comments. Its nice to know that the medical expert didn't fall off his chair laughing - when I'm feeling rich (or seasick) I'll give it a go and will certainly have a look for the tape. I quite agree that, once sick, I would pay anything but as usual, the memory dims very quickly otherwise we would never go back to do it again. Many thanks again.