Sea Sickness

Brinormeg · 24 July 2024, 17:52

Who suffers from sea sickness and how to you deal with it....medications....old wives tales etc

As a child I could get travel sick going to the bottom of the street and back, and my own children also suffered quite bad with it.

Tried various things over the years including oranges, ginger snaps, and numerous different types of medication.

Never bothered me or (now much older) son on the boat until recently while we were fishing, cutting short a couple of trips because of both suffering from it.

Bought a packet of kwells tablets not expecting much help from them....but wow...I'm now completely converted!

Out last week in what was probably far too rough to be sensible and comfortable conditions, and not a sick feeling from either of us at all the whole day!

mhill · 24 July 2024, 18:20

Never get sick on a Rib or little boats but have been know to get a little chunder piggy on yachts when it gets very rough & roll, Queels sort me out a treat with no side accts or issues.

As an anecdote someone once told me the raw jelly was a good preventer of sea sickness, It didn't work for me and made a mess of the side decks and cockpit. I was clearing it up for many days after.....

Fenlander · 24 July 2024, 18:35

I've never even been near feeling queasy for some 65yrs on the water from SIBs to 55ft motor sailers in some significant sea states.

However we went from Mallaig on a CalMac a few years back on a lively day and I found the large ship motion unsettling. I think it was as I had no task to undertake and particularly when below decks the motion vs visuals played me up.

Pikey Dave · 24 July 2024, 18:51

I've tried everything from Ginger to prescription Stemetil Nothing works. I'm convinced that most of it is in my head. I can drive the RIB/SIB all day in any conditions & I'm absolutely fine, but stop & start bobing around in anything but flat calm & I'm puking in 10 mins. I'm same in the car, I'm fine in front, but sit me in the back & it ain't pretty. It's just one of those things I've grown to accept.

Steve509926 · 24 July 2024, 19:22

I never feel "motion" sickness unless I'm a passenger and I'm reading something, doesn't matter if I'm in the passenger seat, the back seat, on a train, fine unless I start to read.
I've only ever suffered sea sickness once. It was years ago on the Bodinnick Ferry, Bodinnick to Caffa Mill, sat in the car and we hadn't even left. I'm sure it was the swell, the motion just set me off, ended up puking over the side! Never happened since.
My dad, despite being in the merchant navy, did suffer from sea sickness. He claimed wearing a copper bracelet helped but I'm convinced it was just a placebo.

spartacus · 25 July 2024, 07:49

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Originally Posted by Fenlander

However we went from Mallaig on a CalMac a few years back on a lively day and I found the large ship motion unsettling. I think it was as I had no task to undertake and particularly when below decks the motion vs visuals played me up.

Reminds my of a journey on Cal Mac's MV Suliven (sadly now at the bottom of the Java Sea) going from Ullapool to Stornoway, probably in the mid 70s. Horrendous weather, big seas and blowing a hoolie. It was so bad the ferry couldn't get into Stornoway, so stayed offshore until the wind dropped. Toilets were like a scene from Posideon Adventure with bulkhead steps the only thing containing the flotsam. In those days the bar was separated from the main seating area with little louvre doors that would momentarily swing open to reveal some hardy soul drinking whisky or rum quite oblivious to the mayhem around them.

jeffstevens763@g · 25 July 2024, 07:53

I use one of those watches that sends a small shock works well I’m ok most of the time but a ground swell makes me feel sick the watch stops that

A1an · 25 July 2024, 19:44

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Originally Posted by Pikey Dave

I've tried everything from Ginger to prescription Stemetil Nothing works. I'm convinced that most of it is in my head. I can drive the RIB/SIB all day in any conditions & I'm absolutely fine, but stop & start bobing around in anything but flat calm & I'm puking in 10 mins. I'm same in the car, I'm fine in front, but sit me in the back & it ain't pretty. It's just one of those things I've grown to accept.

Im exactly the same.

If I'm sea fishing in any kind of swell I'm fine if I'm looking about, as soon as I stick my head down to tie up a new trace or the like it hits me instantly.

I found Stugeron 15 works quite well.

Helicopters are another instant trigger in anything but a clam day.

User name · 31 July 2024, 13:54

I've never suffered any kind of motion sickness myself, but my better half does. A doctor once told us that the only sure remedy is to stay away from whatever triggers you. No amount of medication, wives tales, snake oil or Hail Marys have ever helped.

Croolis · 21 August 2024, 22:49

I get sick if I'm reading in a car or bus. Doesn't affect me on a train for some reason.

So far, on the SIB I only feel it at all if I'm looking down and fiddling with fishing tackle, and even then it's not savage, just a bit of a feeling.

Did a good bit of bobbing up and down, drifting, the other day in some chop for hours and was fine.