so I got my wife this for her sea sickness

reliefband.com.au/

well that was a waste of $149 ( lucky it has money back guarantee that I will be using)

she reported that while on deck she was feeling sick maybe 2 out of 10 ( which would have been the same regardless of the band I'm sure) . she went below to use the head and said ill take the sick bag with me. I thought she was joking. within no more than 2 minutes she was vomiting into the bag. it came on that quick.

now obviously all the preventative things like ginger, good nights sleep, no alcohol before and all the other things will not work in this situation as it seems to be so extreme. literally she gets sea sick when in the cabin when its on the dock.


has ay one used or heard of these

www.xpand.me/products/xpand-anti-motion-sickness-glasses/

is this about to be my next snake oil purchase!

some evidence to say the LCD glasses help motion sickness

ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20070016633.pdf

Warm tuna milkshake usually does the trick!

MorningBird said..
I suffer pretty badly on occasions. If she will use medication and doesn't have heart problems I highly recommend ET's Seasickness capsules from Bova Compounding Chemist in Caringbah. Developed for Andrew Ettingshausen so he could do his fishing show while suffering chronic seasickness, hence the name, the working ingredient is scopolamine with ginger and caffeine etc.
I use them and am ok in big seas and winds. I don't suffer any side effects with the normal strength capsules. They have a double strength capsule, they didn't work any better on me and did make me a bit dry and drowsy.
My sister gets airsick in an A380 at cruise in smooth air. These worked for her as well so she is no longer apprehensive about flying.

cheers I might give them a try

hangtime said..
Warm tuna milkshake usually does the trick!

yum

After spending weeks at sea on a crayboat and tuna longliner I can say there are 4 types of people that I have seen.
1 will not get sick at all.
2 like myself will be mildly sick on the first day and will get over it.
3 will be very sick, often for days but will eventually come round.
4 lastly there are some that never get over it and these I feel sorry for after many days at sea with no promise of going back to shore.

Everybody is different but perhaps you need to see about doing a couple of days to find out if your wife will come good. Just doing a day here and there won't work as the body will readjust each time. Just hope your wife is not number 4 and she never talks to you again.

My son used to get seasick detailing boats on a marina.

His first trip with me I gave him raw unprocessed ginger. He kept a bit in his mouth the whole time and gave it a bit more of a chew when the flavour ran out. He survived the 12 hour trip without getting sick. I also got him to stay on deck and not go downstairs till he was well and truly ok hours into the trip.

He works on boats at sea regularly now and is fine.

An unfortunate side effect of scopolamine (even in low doses for some people) can be apathy & lethargy.
Has happened to me, could be dangerous when single-handing. It does work as seasick prevention, but I'd test it first to see if it effects you.
cheers

Doctors can prescribe stuff that works. Forgot the name, but from distant memories, I think it was an antihistamine?

Just try making your self eat. Never start out on an empty stomach. Keep nibbles handy in the cockpit so no effort is required to get you hands on them. Eat a dry bicky if you even get the slightest hint the Mel der Mer is coming. As a matter of fact keep eating like a cow, grazing all the time.

This approach works for me and I will be giving another test in a couple of days with a 6 day passage to be done. Unfortunately for me, I use to get sea sick all the time no matter what drugs I took until I tried this eating idea out.

Yara said..

bubble7777 said..
Phenergan?

Phenergan definately puts you to sleep. My family use it on long flights for exactly that.

yeah that's what I use it for as well.. when you wake up though I often still feel drowsy

I spent a lot of time on Leeuwin sailing as a kid and young adult. When we went out on a ten day voyage (My first was the Bicentennial voyage Melbourne to Tassy ) we were all told about these miraculous pills that would stop us being sick with in the hour. But as they were expensive we had to tough it out first few days and most would just get over it naturally once they found their sea legs. Cool.

So next trip out and i sailed as a watch leader and we just taught what we learnt as trainees. We also had to watch the people who were very sick and report their condition regularly to permeant crew. Anyway this one girl was in a very bad way after three days and they agreed to prescribe one of the "Miracle" pills. Well first they scrapped the letter G of it and i was forced to give this poor girl (Who i had lied too) a placebo Anyway literally almost to the tee an hour latter she was sitting up and asking for food. Needless to say, i threw up for the next day after learning id been tricked all those years.

Apparently two different types of sea sickness. First is simply in your head, sell a placebo well enough, it will work, second is a real condition that often is associated with travel sickness, dizziness and even inner ear and sight problems. These people can normally find medication that will work. But it can take different methods for different people. Some will have them the night before and then the morning also, others might need them on food or others on empty stomach. Their are a lot of different medications out their, and just because the first one doesn't work, don't give up..

For people who get sick i find also good communication and explanation to them as to what is happening on the boat and voyage. Often nervousness and anticipation are the biggest problem. Take their mind of it and they'll be much better, obvious i know, but i find communication is such a key for happy boating. What we might think is obvious can often be very foreign for others.

I use a reliefband and it DOES work, but only if it's correctly positioned and turned up high enough.

I also supplement it with a seasickness tablet during day time on my first day out at sea.

The reliefband is perhaps the single most effective tool against sickness as it continues to work even if you are actually sick, unlike a tablet.
its not infallible, but to get the best outof a relief band I'd suggest using it thus:

get the band positioned on the wrist. make sure the band is switched on and around level 2 or 3. it should give a buzzing pulse running into the palm.
I keep mine under my base layer and am able to switch it off when I sleep, when I wake, to go on watch, before I lift myhead, I switch the band on to at least 3, maybe 4. I give it 5 minutes to have any effect.
I can then get up, get my foulies on, boots on and head outside.

I don't need it while outside so switch it off.
When I feel hungry, I switch it on, give it 5 minutes and depending on sea state depends on the level. But if I have to go below for cooking, then it will be on level 4 possibly 5 (maximum)

it wont stop you being sick if you are really succeptible but it will make it bearable and give the person a better chance to get over motion sicknes more quickly. It is also scientifically proven. It works on all kinds of nausea, not just seasickness.

stick with it, honestly. I knew a chap who used two, one on each wrist turned up to the max. It was the only thing that made it possible for him to sail sometimes.

TheMisfit said..
I use a reliefband and it DOES work, but only if it's correctly positioned and turned up high enough.

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the large amount of vomit in the bag would suggest otherwise and yes it was at level 3 and set up properly. I will give it one more go but I'm sceptical as to its usefulness.

The relief band I've got has 5 settings.
If I'm feeling particularly bilious it's on 5.

Mine is the older style band where you can change the battery.

I bought one for my friend who gets terribly sick even just sitting on my boat on the pontoon mooring (it rocks around a lot as I'm on the entrance of Portsmouth harbour in the firing line of ferries and pilot boats)

She was sceptical.
She also feels ill on the pendolino trains that lean so tested it on that.
She was able to read a book etc and arrived feeling completely normal after a 3 hour journey that would usually leave her feeling wrecked.
Still sceptical, she switched it off on the return journey. Within seconds she felt sick.

Apparently the electronic stimulation on the acupressure point is rather like a defibrillator for our digestive system. The electronic pulse maintains the natural rhythm of the digestive tract when our bodies/brain switches it off during motion sickness in a natural self preservation act when the brain can't work out what's going on it tries to save energy by switching off the system.

So it's not infallible, but combine the electric band with a simple tablet like kwells or sturgeron and you won't find a better combination.

Crusoe said..
Just try making your self eat. Never start out on an empty stomach. Keep nibbles handy in the cockpit so no effort is required to get you hands on them. Eat a dry bicky if you even get the slightest hint the Mel der Mer is coming. As a matter of fact keep eating like a cow, grazing all the time.

This approach works for me and I will be giving another test in a couple of days with a 6 day passage to be done. Unfortunately for me, I use to get sea sick all the time no matter what drugs I took until I tried this eating idea out.

Yep, completed my six day passage (Solo). I was reading books and watching movies all the time. Any feelings of 'mel der mer' were quickly brought under control with a simple sao. Food works for me, when nothing electronic or drug related has succeeded in the past.

My mate asked me if it was a placebo effect making the electric band work, to which I replied, I don't care, as long as it works.

I don't think it is placebo effect in this case, but either way, I don't mind. It works when nothing else has. I'm glad I've got it and several of my guests have been too when I've fitted it to them.