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The patcheds work for some but not all, if you get the little knobs on the presure points they usually work. A great thing we found on our last cruise was Ginger. My girlfriend gets severe motion sickness and the patches did not work for her but Ginger did bring her a bit of relief. She found that the patches were fine on the outside but if she went inside ie: dining room, bar, they did not help.
Health food stores have ginger, but I have found out that if you buy a natural/herbal product from within a drugstore (in Canada)the dosage etc.. is monitored by Health Canada, sometimes the health food stores sell items not monitored.
I do not remember if Ginger comes in liquid or tablet form, but it does work, also on the Islands if you look hard enough you can find non drowsey dramimine. We found it about 2 years ago in a drugstore, in the travel section - individual doses, my girlfriend swore by it. The ship we were on ran out of dramimine, so we bought quite a bit of it.
Back to the patches I found they worked but they didn't help all people.
By the way, seasickness is heavily dependent on your mental state. For that reason, almost anything you think will work does work. Even the wristbands, which are widely viewed as quackery, work about 75% of the time. Actual medications (such as Dramamine or meclazine) work about 90% of the time, so there's really not that big a difference. If you think pickles are a cure, and convince yourself of it, they will also have about a 75% success rate.
The old salts say never to eat raspberries, however.
Like Sympatico my husband has no problems whatsoever and also thinks that its a state of mind - tut tut you men..... The last three cruises I have taken bonine which has worked fine, no side effects but the cruises were on pretty calm seas. I would also like to know more about the ginger capsules if they have a taste etc... and would you buy them in a health food store, as I have never seen them in our Chemist Stores.
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So, from now on I call my doctor and he gives me a prescription for phenergan and I'm good to go!
There's a very helpful website out there called cruisemates.com that has a forum called "Ask the Pharmacist". You can ask the doctor a question, and he writes back within a couple of days. You'll see my questions there, and lots of others where he gives very helpful advice.
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I do get incredable car sickness, especially on short car trips with the windows rolled up. and I can not read.. I just roll the window down a little and stick my fingers out the window for releif??
I am sort of scared of cruiseing and finding out I get sick.. any ideas and suggestions if I just should try the acupressure thing.. I really dont want to take meds.. but will try the ginger.
My very first trip is May 27th on Celebrity.. I have avoided cruises before because of this problem.. This time I am determined to have a good time.
One thing to consider is going on a much larger ship...we just went on RCI's Voyager of the Seas and it was amazing how steady this ship was! Usually you can feel a constant rocking, especially in the pool, in your stateroom (in bed, the most!) and in enclosed spaces, like the show lounges, dining rooms, etc.. We only felt the Voyager move a few times for just a few seconds, and then she was steady again. I was amazed!!!
Take something like Ginger or Seabands with you (and have some Bonine or something, just in case.) Worse case scenario would be if you end up getting sick anyway (you'll know by the 2nd day!) and you can always call the onboard nurse. They have drugs that will make you feel just fine (and that have no side effects, too!)
You'll be fine with these things as back-up!
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