Seasickness meds..

[Carpkiller]

I have tried a few, and all of them worked to some degree...until they didn't.

One that was most effective was Cinnarizine, which I think is sold under the brand name Stugeron or Stugeron forte.

Not FDA approved, but can be had from pharmacies in Tijuana.

The little wristbands with the buttons that press on your inner wrist seemed to help as well.

[Gotfish?]

As I said in another post, prescription scopolamine patches are the most effective for me. The wristbands didn't work for me. Important to apply the patches 2-3 hours before needed.

The patches work on more than just motion sickness. If you have nausea for any reason (flu, food poisoning, gastroenteritis, other illnesses), it generally helps those too. Non prescription patches have not worked for me.

Always having some food in the stomach helps. Unseasoned pork rinds are surprisingly good, crackers would be my 2nd choice.

Hooking a nice tuna works, amazing how all the sickness goes away when the adrenaline hits. But it comes back soon after landing the fish.

Pressing on the acupressure point on the wrist helps. Might be that it is more of a distraction than anything else. But you need both hands to fish. Closing the eyes helps too but again, you need those to fish.

Ginger chewing gum seems to help. How much of that is due to the ginger and how much is due to the distraction of chewing, I don't know.

If you are already sick and have pills but not patches and would throw up a pill if you swallowed it, put a pill under your tongue. You will absorb it sublingually.

[vito1023]

Great info, thanks

[Gotfish?]

If you have taken the seasickness meds and are just waiting for them to kick in and you want the seasickness to subside, then do something to distract your brain.

Besides catching a fish, pushing on an acupressure point on the wrists helps some (I have not found the bands to work). Anything that stimulates the vagus nerve will probably work as that controls vomiting.

Recently, I had a case of hiccups that would not go away. I tried breath holding (sometimes works). I read some stuff on vagus nerve and pushed firmly just below the eyeballs (recommendation was to gently push on the eyeballs but I wear contact lenses) and the hiccups stopped. I kept it up for a couple of minutes just to be sure. For seasickness, you would have to keep it up until the meds kicked in.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2014 ... edies-work