How to Prevent and Cure Sea Sickness With A Navy Veteran - VI Podcast 

I like the idea of trying the non-medical solutions first

Hamburger is also surprisingly good for this.

You're very welcome 🙂

Thanks! 😁

What ship was your last free cruise on?

@@VacationImpossible - One of the Royal Caribbean ones, but my folks took us on that one so I'm not sure if it counts lol.

Didn't know Royal Caribbean puts soda out with the buffet, nice

You're very welcome. We also recently tested this device which cured my friend's sea sickness in under 2 minutes www.emeterm.com/?ref=Q0Xl2pcu So that's another option as well 🙂

A friend of mine does the ear thing but I don't think it actually helps him but couldn't hurt to try I suppose

Wow!

Vacation Impossible yea luckily I didn’t hit me until I got on the water. I put it on a couple hours before then drove to dock. My doctor suggested cutting it in half or even putting on for a little while then take off. I sold my old boat because of sea sickness but I love to fish so I’m looking to get another one next season. It sucks because I’m in ri and fishing out by block Island is incredible. But the seas are always big out there. So unfortunately I might have to pick my days and stay in where it’s not as bad. I’m really gonna try to cure my issues with sea sickness.

I really hope that works out for you

I loved the Transderm Scōp patch...I'd have been really nauseated without it, but only used it for 24 hrs. Dry mouth was the only side effect.

@@Oakleaf700 Yeah, I've heard of people getting dizzy with it. I always felt a little weird, but not dizzy. Totally had all the dry mouth though.

We were on a road trip to Indianapolis

Great question. There's a lot of factors that go into how long one can go before the nausea sets in. The biggest factors are the sea state (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_state) and the direction of the waves. Generally speaking, side to side movement wasn't too bad, but up and down was REALLY bad. Regardless of movement, I generally started getting nauseous around Sea State 5 without any medication. On the upside, we rarely didn't know when a storm was coming, so the Scopolamine patch could have time to start working. Sometimes though, the Sea State gets bad enough where you're throwing up every 15 min....those were dark days; the kind of days where you're not worried if you'll die, but more scared that you won't. I've known many people who ended up on IV fluids because they couldn't (or didn't) take in enough water while nauseous. Being in Sea State 5 and above was, thankfully, a rarity and not a common occurrence. Most of the time the sea is a friendly place to be. When I was in the Perisian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman back in 2002, it was Sea State 0; only ships and marine life broke the glassy sheen on the water.

Hiya thanks for detailed reply. Could I ask did you get sea sick many times on the same trip? I was informed that most seasickess should pass after 48hrs, as you should get your sea legs by then?....

It's difficult to make reliable generalizations, our friend Mike for example has gotten sea sick 5 days into a cruise before

@@VacationImpossible ok thanks for the reply.

You're welcome. It's tricky because different people react differently which is why we try to cover a variety of remedies and prevention techniques. We recently found something that seems to help 85% of people though ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eF-vSEJXK-A.html

Honestly we haven't personally heard of plugging the ear as an effective remedy before. Can't do that when serving on the bridge or anywhere else on duty as you need to hear orders, etc. Another member of our team has tried ear plugging and it never helped him 🤷‍♂️ As for wristbands we try not to recommend things we haven't tried ourselves, when we put this video out we hadn't tried a wristband before but it's funny you mention it because we just tested one that worked in less than 2 minutes! You can see that here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eF-vSEJXK-A.html

@@VacationImpossible wow. That does seem too good to be true...thanks for the test and link

We thought the same! We were fully prepared to debunk that thing, then it worked!

@@VacationImpossible That's crazy! I bought a set of wrist bands and tested them in a friend's rapidly accelerating BMW on winding roads as a passenger...After 20 mins I felt so sick I had to get out and walk home. For the Sea Journey, I got the scopolamine. But if they work for some people, that 's amazing for them.

😮 Yea they're supposed to be effective for 85% of the population

Best to take it easy

I wonder if they make a lower-dosage version

​@@VacationImpossible After getting wickedly sick on a sailboat trip in a storm, I felt murderous, I got a scopolamine patch from a family friend who was on the boat with us. I very rarely use any prescription drugs, so I thought I might be sensitive to the full patch dose. So I did what the instructions tell you not to do, and cut one in half. Worked great, within about 34 to 40 minutes I was feeling fantastic and even ate some salami and cheese...lol. I put a piece of the adhesive strip I cut from a Bandaid, over the cut side of the patch to keep it from evaporating. And stored the yet to be used cut half in plastic wrap, and it worked fine after sitting for about a week, for our return trip. Using only half a patch probably lessened any potential side effects too, I just noticed I still felt like I was on a boat for a about a day, after taking off the half patch, when walking around the Island.

@@ww1aero Oh yes, 'Mal de debarquement' is the sensation of moving on land after being on water. I have had it after being on a RIB boat on the med, {no scopolamine} and also various ferries {one with scopolamine}..The swaying rolling sensation is disconcerting.

I've had a little bit of that

This cured my friend in under 2 minutes ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eF-vSEJXK-A.html

Sorry to hear that

Wow, that's impressive

Then why did you watch this video?

Where do they teach fat shaming?

You’re the one that mentioned Fat!

I must have misunderstood your comment, what were you talking about?

@@VacationImpossible He was definitely fat shaming you and playing the victim card afterwards...

Being a twat when commenting, thats also pretty common on youtube.