went_postal
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Short Version:
Bonine seems to work as a cure as well as a prevention for nausea and motion sickness (at least for my wife). If by chance you get a little sick watching certain video game motion and you get sick while diving... give Bonine a try. It over the counter and relatively easy to find.
Long Version:
I've seen a bunch of posts about motion sickness on boats and in surge and whatnot... but figured I would share my wife's experience in the hope that it would help someone else that may be experiencing similar issues.
My wife has been keen to do diving because she wants to see all that there is to see underwater. The problem is... she learned very early on that you can vomit through a regulator underwater.
Initially we thought maybe it was nerves or just the newness of breathing off of a bottle. Heck... maybe even the temperature of the water in the quarry.
On cruise ships she's had success with scopolamine patches so she tried that... No dice. She still got very ill every time she get under the water.
The local dive shop has a pool for training and equipment testing so we were trying to work it out there. She was still getting sick just being in the pool. When we were running out of thoughts on what the issue could be one of the instructors actually came over and was chatting us up. Turns out... his daughter has a similar problem and it's more or less just garden variety motion sickness. Seems weird that in a relatively stationary environment that someone could get motion sickness but I guess the distortion from the water just throws some people off.
Generally when she gets nausea from this it takes her out for a good day. The instructor had recommended Bonine to prevent the sickness. When we got home I looked it up and was surprised to find that it is not just a preventative it's labeled as a curative measure as well. So... picked some up at the local pharmacy and sure enough... she tried it and within about 30 minutes she was right as rain.
We made plans to go back to the pool to try out the bonine... so she took it the morning before and the morning of us getting in the pool and to our surprise she was able to stay under the water and do various tasks for over 30 minutes! May not seem like much to others... but this was a huge milestone for her.
So the Bonine helped A LOT... and now she is actually excited about diving again.
Bonine seems to work as a cure as well as a prevention for nausea and motion sickness (at least for my wife). If by chance you get a little sick watching certain video game motion and you get sick while diving... give Bonine a try. It over the counter and relatively easy to find.
Long Version:
I've seen a bunch of posts about motion sickness on boats and in surge and whatnot... but figured I would share my wife's experience in the hope that it would help someone else that may be experiencing similar issues.
My wife has been keen to do diving because she wants to see all that there is to see underwater. The problem is... she learned very early on that you can vomit through a regulator underwater.
Initially we thought maybe it was nerves or just the newness of breathing off of a bottle. Heck... maybe even the temperature of the water in the quarry.
On cruise ships she's had success with scopolamine patches so she tried that... No dice. She still got very ill every time she get under the water.
The local dive shop has a pool for training and equipment testing so we were trying to work it out there. She was still getting sick just being in the pool. When we were running out of thoughts on what the issue could be one of the instructors actually came over and was chatting us up. Turns out... his daughter has a similar problem and it's more or less just garden variety motion sickness. Seems weird that in a relatively stationary environment that someone could get motion sickness but I guess the distortion from the water just throws some people off.
Generally when she gets nausea from this it takes her out for a good day. The instructor had recommended Bonine to prevent the sickness. When we got home I looked it up and was surprised to find that it is not just a preventative it's labeled as a curative measure as well. So... picked some up at the local pharmacy and sure enough... she tried it and within about 30 minutes she was right as rain.
We made plans to go back to the pool to try out the bonine... so she took it the morning before and the morning of us getting in the pool and to our surprise she was able to stay under the water and do various tasks for over 30 minutes! May not seem like much to others... but this was a huge milestone for her.
So the Bonine helped A LOT... and now she is actually excited about diving again.
