What seasickness remedy works for you?

Spending lots of time at sea (as opposed to being on the boat in harbour). After two or three weeks you will start to get used to the motion and should be OK for the rest of the trip.

My cure was working on a survey ship for a couple of years then running a charter yacht/sailing school. Last sea sickness incident was mid 1980's when some tinned peaches for breakfast made a quick exit, which was a surprise as had not been sea sick for over 10 years. But then it was the middle of N Sea, 60 degrees north, reaching in a northerly force 8 to 9 on a 40 ft yacht.
 
srm said:
Spending lots of time at sea (as opposed to being on the boat in harbour). After two or three weeks you will start to get used to the motion and should be OK for the rest of the trip.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Nelson suffer from sea sickness all his life?
 
Fresh air, looking at the horizon and a job to do that requires me to concentrate. I am not going to jinx anything by saying I don't get seasick but queasy feelings have always been triggered by hangovers, someone else heaving or something like that. Having seen the state some people end up in I can honestly say I would simply never go on a boat again if I got like that. Stugeron definitely helps some folks (but does have side effects for some too). Ginger can alleviate the symptoms and I'd avoid eating or drinking anything that might exacerbate the problem if I knew I was susceptible.
 
Have mostly got over seasickness these days (fingers crossed.....) but Stugeron always worked for me. My solution to the drowsiness problem was to take half a one every four hours instead of (as suggested) one every eight hours. Unless I was going off watch for a couple of hours, in which case a whole one makes a good sleeping pill. Tried the patches but got very vivid hallucinations. To be fair might have been the lack of sleep but wasn't keen for a repeat. As others have said, staying off the booze beforehand makes a huge difference. Keeping warm, well fed (plenty of nice, plain, digestible carbs) & rested is also a big help.
 
MissFitz said:
Have mostly got over seasickness these days (fingers crossed.....) but Stugeron always worked for me. My solution to the drowsiness problem was to take half a one every four hours instead of (as suggested) one every eight hours. Unless I was going off watch for a couple of hours, in which case a whole one makes a good sleeping pill. Tried the patches but got very vivid hallucinations. To be fair might have been the lack of sleep but wasn't keen for a repeat. As others have said, staying off the booze beforehand makes a huge difference. Keeping warm, well fed (plenty of nice, plain, digestible carbs) & rested is also a big help.
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You have all the ingredients to be free of the problem. Additionally, I carry Sturgeron suppository and Scopolamine patches for the difficult cases
 
I hate taking pills especially as a single-hander they usually make me dopey (e.g. Stugeron) which isn't clever, but generally I'm fine unless I spend more than a minute concentrating at the nav-table down below. On much longer offshore passages in swellly seas, I just feel 'orrible for the first six or twelve hours, might puke, then I normally adjust.
 
MissFitz said:
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Tried the patches but got very vivid hallucinations. To be fair might have been the lack of sleep but wasn't keen for a repeat.

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You may be one of those people that can't take scopolamine. It is a psycho-active drug and hallucinations are one of the potential side effects - hence the recommendation that you should try a patch on a day when you can afford to shut down for several hours till the pink elephants go away.

Come to think of it, perhaps Viago is permanently on patches!
 
With both cinnarizine (trade names Stugeron, Boots Motion Sickness Tablets) and hyoscine/scopolamine (Kwells, Scopoderm and lots of other proprietary names) people can have very different dose-response experiences. Thus if you suffer bad side-effects on the normally-recommended dose it is possible that you are sensitive to both the wanted and unwanted effects of the drug, and taking a lower dose will give worthwhile benefit without the side-effects.

Note: hyoscine and scopolamine are the UK and US names for the same drug, like paracetamol/acetaminophen and adrenaline/epinephrine, so if one disagrees with you so will the other.
 
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