sasscuba
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dramamine 1.5 hours prior to getting on boat has always worked for me.
How to prevent seasickness...
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Blacthorn
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The thing that has always worked best for me, which I know doesn't work for everyone though, are seabands. Those are the grey (usually) elastic bands with a half marble sewn into them, which you wear on your wrists, they use pressure points to counter act your out of sinc ear drums basiclly. They work wonderfully , YMMV. I have always been very prone to getting motion sick, and even if I start to feel it, if I put the bands on within about 15 mins I feel fine.
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Some people just get seasick... or car sick... or roller coaster sick... I once got sick sitting still just WATCHING a film of a roller coaster... for some of us there is absolutely nothing that will help.Not the patch, not pills, not ginger, not the stupid little bracelets they sell at Wal Mart, nothing.
When I am going diving or fishing, I just assume I will get sick and if I don't then my day is that much better.
Eat soft, easily puked foods. Drink adequate water but not too much. Wait till the last second to put on your wetsuit.
Remember, once you get off the boat, seasick goes away. I never saw anyone underwater getting queasy from the waves.
When I am going diving or fishing, I just assume I will get sick and if I don't then my day is that much better.
Eat soft, easily puked foods. Drink adequate water but not too much. Wait till the last second to put on your wetsuit.
Remember, once you get off the boat, seasick goes away. I never saw anyone underwater getting queasy from the waves.
Meclizine is a great medication it comes in any of these Antivert, Bonine, Dramamine II, Driminate II.. Another very good thing to do is take some soda crakers or salines. This will help absorb the acids that your stomic will produce and keep you feeling a littlbe beter.
mudchick
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This is one of those things in which different things work for different people. For me Dramamine II or Bonine works well. A pharmacist told me that when meclizine was prescription only, the tablet strength was greater than what it is over the counter now so you may be able to increase the dosage a little without trouble. You can supplement this with ginger available at healthfood stores. Good luck and have a good time.
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It's the best, The over the counter version is called Bonine. The only difference between the over the counter version and the prescription version is the price. Get your doctor to prescribe it for you and save tons of $'s
It's the best, The over the counter version is called Bonine. The only difference between the over the counter version and the prescription version is the price. Get your doctor to prescribe it for you and save tons of $'s
heligeek
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Mythbusters did a show on seasickness and they found that Ginger pills were the most effective with the least side-effects. My wife gets sick when we dive boats and she has been using ginger after we watched the episode and rarely gets sick, Even when other people are chumming the waters.
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I've been told "you either get over it or you die"....I guess I'm dying a slow death.
I have had the grey bands...didn't help me, but helped a lady that was on the boat.
I have the motion band, that gives you a little electric jolt every few seconds (like touching a cow fence)....doesn't go away for me, but makes it easier....I've passed it out to sickies on the boat and really saved their day.
For me, taking the pills with breakfast works good. On some days I sleep on the drive in because the pills just knock me out and am all good when I get there. I have tried them all, OTCR that is, and the generic ones do it for me, just as good as the name brands....even the ones you can get at K-mart.
Otherwise what the others have said, stay away from fumes, confined smelly places (the head), stay more to the middle of the boat if it should become rough....etc.
I have had the grey bands...didn't help me, but helped a lady that was on the boat.
I have the motion band, that gives you a little electric jolt every few seconds (like touching a cow fence)....doesn't go away for me, but makes it easier....I've passed it out to sickies on the boat and really saved their day.
For me, taking the pills with breakfast works good. On some days I sleep on the drive in because the pills just knock me out and am all good when I get there. I have tried them all, OTCR that is, and the generic ones do it for me, just as good as the name brands....even the ones you can get at K-mart.
Otherwise what the others have said, stay away from fumes, confined smelly places (the head), stay more to the middle of the boat if it should become rough....etc.
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Visualization and Kinesthetics. You have to convince your Mind and Body that you are in dynamic motion, and that you can actively compensate for it. Otherwise you get the Brain/Inner-Ear conflict leading to Motion Sickness.
Feel the rhythm of the swell and its effects on the boat's motion, see how it changes your visual perspective on the Horizon. Memorize and playback that Kinesthesia in your "Mind's Eye", especially when that first pang of Queasiness hits your gut. When you get good at it, you can hold off debilitating Sea Sickness even while lying below in your bunk, or at night when you can't see the Horizon, and in all conditions short of The Perfect Storm . . .
Feel the rhythm of the swell and its effects on the boat's motion, see how it changes your visual perspective on the Horizon. Memorize and playback that Kinesthesia in your "Mind's Eye", especially when that first pang of Queasiness hits your gut. When you get good at it, you can hold off debilitating Sea Sickness even while lying below in your bunk, or at night when you can't see the Horizon, and in all conditions short of The Perfect Storm . . .
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