What seasickness remedy works for you?

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Has anyone tried the anti-motion sickness glasses? I thought stugeron was the bees' knees for many years but gave up on it after it turned me into a zombie while crossing Biscay. After that I had great results from little SeaBands on my wrist, including while crossing to the Caribbean, but last month sailing to the Azores they didn’t work at all. I read the posts here on the seasickness watch (Class 2 medical device no less) – but it sounds like a lot of wasted dosh if it is off the spot by 2mm. So that leaves the glasses and eating ginger biscuits. Any experiences?
 
Sure fire cure - go sit below a tree. All the rest are really glorified snake oil with perhaps the exception of Stugeron and even they do not work all the time
 
Sturgeron works for me. If the recipient does not get well after 2 pills, then I threaten the "barfer" with the insertion of a suppository. No one got one yet...

Also Scopolamine patch worked well in pilot training applications in the military, especially when doing aerobatics. Not me mind you but many of my mates.
 
I very rarely get seasick, but my wife suffers badly. Then she discovered Scopolamine patches and the difference is amazing. She would get sick in just a light swell, but now she remains fully functional and has even been known to cook a fried breakfast in conditions that made it difficult to stand up in the galley.

Not everyone can take them - her doctor advised her to test one on a day when she could afford to lay down for hours till the effects wore off. In practice, the only side effects are a rather dry mouth and she now uses them whenever we are expecting a bouncy passage,
 
Oh dear, I forgot about the old Scopolamine. Never used the patches but have a bottle of pill form in the sick box
 
maby said:
I very rarely get seasick, but my wife suffers badly. Then she discovered Scopolamine patches and the difference is amazing. She would get sick in just a light swell, but now she remains fully functional and has even been known to cook a fried breakfast in conditions that made it difficult to stand up in the galley.

Not everyone can take them - her doctor advised her to test one on a day when she could afford to lay down for hours till the effects wore off. In practice, the only side effects are a rather dry mouth and she now uses them whenever we are expecting a bouncy passage,
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I use them too, they're excellent.
 
PowerSlapper said:
Oh dear, I forgot about the old Scopolamine. Never used the patches but have a bottle of pill form in the sick box
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The patches are great - the problem with pills is that if you leave them too late, or they wear off, and you start being sick, then you can't keep them down long enough to get into the bloodstream. You can be throwing up continuously, slap on a patch, and within minutes you are beginning to feel better.
 
Scopoderme patches were always my choice when I was in charge or short handed, minor side effects and you don't feel great but no sea sickness so you can carry on and on long passages I found I'd acclimatised in a couple of days an dthen didn't need anything. But one night tied up or ashore and you have to start again. So I was fine all the way to Barbados then thinking I was an old sea dog took nothing and was sick on the way to St Lucia. Could have been the beer/rum punch that we had on arrival in Bridge town though.
 
I used Scopaderm for many years. I think their great dvantage is that they keep you more highly dosed, since the stuff is continuously infusing into you - it's not a single hit infusing for hours. In fact when they became unavailable (one of two factories making them closed and the output of the other was reserved for chemo patients, for whom they turned out to be very effective against nausea) I stopped sailing for five years.

Then I thought about it a couple of years ago and realised that although I considered myself likely to be seasick, I hadn't actually been sick before or after a single horrible trip in 1991, though I had a queasy episode in 1993. There is a strong psychological element to seasickness, I think, and I was too dependent on my wee patches. I still have them, but haven't felt any need to use them for a couple of years.

Buccastem is often recommended for treatement once the horrors have begun, by the way. Faster than Scopaderm and nothing to swallow.
 
I rarely feel seasick but when I do it's because I have eaten something unsuitable. The worst time was after having curried mussels and drunk a lot of wine the night before going out into an F7. I won't do that again!
 
bitbaltic said:
Tell me where they serve curried mussels and I will make a note never to go there :)
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It was a restaurant in Paimpol; run by two elderly sisters. The curried mussels were the first course in one of those fixed price menus. "Can't be that bad ...", I thought! I'd never had them before and I never will again.
 
Balticfly said:
Has anyone tried the anti-motion sickness glasses? I thought stugeron was the bees' knees for many years but gave up on it after it turned me into a zombie while crossing Biscay. After that I had great results from little SeaBands on my wrist, including while crossing to the Caribbean, but last month sailing to the Azores they didn’t work at all. I read the posts here on the seasickness watch (Class 2 medical device no less) – but it sounds like a lot of wasted dosh if it is off the spot by 2mm. So that leaves the glasses and eating ginger biscuits. Any experiences?
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What is "sea sickness"?
 
An apple tree in a pot on the foredeck. But takes about 3 days sat under it in a F8 to work. Indeed after 3 days in a F8 sat on the foredeck, you will likely find you no longer suffer sea sickness anyway, but by then you will likely be sick of the sea anyway !

Time exposed to the motion is the only cure IMHO, and even now after just a few years at sea I periodically feel the quease when I least expect it, or want to feel it, and I am generally too proud to admit it when it does say hello. Fortunately for me it is only a mild nausea now, rather than the first time I felt it when I still remember thinking I would feel better in the sea rather than on it.
 
I suffered from sea sickness for years and found Marzine helped although they did make me sleepy. Even when dosed up I could not go below without becoming dizzy and disorientated. For the last few years I have had great success with Avomine tablets and now have no symptoms of seasickness whatever the sea state. Best of all though is that I can now happily stay below doing chart work or making tea without any problems at all. They have really made a huge difference to my sailing enjoyment.
 
Wife and I have used Boots-branded Travel Calm tablets for years, which I think are hyoscine. They work very well for us, and quickly, the packet says effective within 15 minutes, and we've found the effects last at least 6 hours. Tried Stugeron years ago but they knock me out. The Boots ones can make us a bit drowsy but only a problem if you're not busy.
 
First blow of the season I sometimes get a touch of the mal-de mer. I believe keeping yourself well hydrated and blood sugar levels up helps. For me that means black coffee sweetened with honey, with ginger snap 'dunkers'.

I've used scopalomine patches in the past; best hangover cure known to man as well as being effective against seasickness. Stugeron works but leaves me with an horrible sticky feeling in the mouth.
 
Thanks for all that information. I ignored Scopalomine patches after a medic friend crewing for me used them on a rough trip to Norway and was sick for the first 36 hours. But they may work for me. Doesn't sound like anyone has tried the magic glasses
 
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