Motion sickness

[DandyDon]

A spade is a spade, or a shovel - but not a backhoe.

 

[limeyx]

Now THAT's scary!!

Oh, well! Just picked up scopalomine patches. I'm wearing one though the weekend to make sure I don't have side affects, and then I'll give it a try on the boat.

I will call, "Success!", on anything that keeps me from urping more than four times . . . . (how's that for a standard? )

Scopace (the pill version of scopalomine) is the ONLY thing that works for me, and it has fewer side effects than anything else.

I did notice that the pills effective lifespan seems to be less than that on the tin (i.e. my pills are usually good for say 6 months but noticeably less effective after 4)

Rumbos jedi-mind tricks have been completely ineffective for me.

 

[Jax]

Scopace (the pill version of scopalomine) is the ONLY thing that works for me, and it has fewer side effects than anything else.

I did notice that the pills effective lifespan seems to be less than that on the tin (i.e. my pills are usually good for say 6 months but noticeably less effective after 4)

Rumbos jedi-mind tricks have been completely ineffective for me.

Am I to take away that you tried the patch and it didn't work?

 

[Kevrumbo]

...Rumbos jedi-mind tricks have been completely ineffective for me.

Then take control and try piloting the diveboat next time Nick (seriously, on the Sea Bass go on up and at least sit with Capt Richard --ask him if you can take the wheel outside the harbor). . .

 

[DandyDon]

So many boats run on auto pilot now. :/

 

[Kevrumbo]

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Originally Posted by limeyx
...Rumbos jedi-mind tricks have been completely ineffective for me.

So many boats run on auto pilot now. :/

Nonetheless DandyDon (and Nick) --you've gotta try the illusion that you are effecting some control over the motion of the vessel. At the very least, sitting with the Captain "at the wheel", you can see where the boat's heading, the motion of the ocean & waves, see & anticipate moving up and over the swells . . .convince your mind's frame of reference that you are in motion and can predict/react to the dynamic forces around you.

 

[Kevrumbo]

. . .Rumbos jedi-mind tricks have been completely ineffective for me.

Look people --here's an easy beginning exercise to help develop your Cognitive/Kinesthetic Awareness and to understand the basic mechanics of it all:

Stand-up, close your eyes, and have a friend push you at random intervals from any direction around you. Try to steady yourself and resist being knocked over as best you can. After a while, you might start feeling disoriented or even dizzy & nauseous (the start of motion sickness).

Take a break . . .and then try again:

Stand-up, close your eyes, and this time have your friend at 5 second intervals push from directly in front of you, and then 5 seconds later push you coming from your right side. Repeat this set over and over --Anticipate, brace yourself and counter-react to these pushes to keep from being knocked over. You shouldn't be as disoriented as you were before because you're now in control, countering these predictable, periodic and expected forces trying to push you over.

Now apply this to being on the diveboat: you see the swells coming in a regular predictable frequency (every 12 seconds for example) --Anticipate, brace yourself and counter-react to these "pushes" to keep from being knocked over. Now close your eyes and do the same thing. At the very least, with practice (and hopefully easy rhythm swells, and non-heavy, stormy or chaotic seas to start off with!), you should be able hold off the nausea to a tolerable level.

Be patient and don't give up: it takes time, concentration & effort to develop and apply this cognitive/kinesthetic technique to the seemingly complex 3-dimensional forces acting on you at sea and achieve some relief of motion sickness symptoms . . .the gist is to figure out and feel the rhythm of the swells and anticipate yours & the boat's resultant movement. . .

 

[limeyx]

Am I to take away that you tried the patch and it didn't work?

I tried it, but it kept coming off when I pulled my drysuit neck seal on, and never seemed to stick very well to me.

 

[Jax]

I tried the scopomine patch this weekend - no boat or anything, just wore it around and dived with it once. I wanted to be sure that if I had side-effects, they did not contraindicate diving.

When they list "dry-mouth", they aren't kidding! :shocked2:

 

[DandyDon]

Dry mouth is good; it'll make you hydrate more!