Don't avoid rides just get some Meclizine HCI 25mg chewable tablets!!!!!

[tink2dw]

Don't avoid rides just get some Meclizine HCI 25mg chewable tablets!!!!!

Then enjoy the rides!! Meclizine changed my life!!
I even rode space mountain 3 times in a row!!

OK, heres the important stuff,Meclizine is the genaric for Bonine[8 tablets,$10.00].Meclizine
can be purchased over the counter,a bottle of 100 tablets cost $9.00 at Wal-greens.

If you have a child with motion sickness ask their docter how much to give it will give them the relief they need to enjoy riding!!!

Take a dose the night before you travel and you will be good to go,each night of your travels take a dose!! You will think That you will are a new person!!!!!

I don't have any drowzyness with Meclizine.If I find I am getting a little car sick I take a tablet,it starts immediately to cure the ill feelings. from experiece I know I need two tablets
I Have Extereme Car Sickness,I rode in my freinds new Honda,I wasn't used to the Wish Bone suspension but when I felt that awful feeling I took the pills out of my purse,Bingo I was ok!!

It is a 24hr pill,dose 1 to 2 tablets,it works for planes,trains,buses,cars,boats and WDW rides!!

Take A dose of Meclizine and HAVE THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE!!!!
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Jacquelyn11
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From: Marietta, GA USA
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Pharmacist answer to Motion Sickness Meds
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Hi Sawyer!
As a pharmacist I recommend Bonine, a chewable form of meclizine. This is the same medicine they will offer you on the ship. It comes in packages of 8 (just right for the 7 day) and you take it about and hour or so before you board the ship. If your kids are around 50 lbs they can take 1/2 tab (though the drug lit. says over 12) For your youngsters you can take along some liquid childrens Dramamine. Dramamine does tend to make you more drowsy. And it's true most young kids are not bothered by rough seas. I guess its due to thoes 9 months of "womb waves" they experienced. I would suggest that you ask your pediatrician if you can have a script for a couple of phenergan suppositories to take with you. This is mainly for nausea/vomiting rather than a motion sickness cure, but it would help if that situation arrises.

Do steer clear of the patches. Scopolamine is good at preventing motion sickness, but has a multitude of undesirable side effects. If your not carefull in washing your hand after application behind your ear and touch your eye it will dialate like it does at the eye doctors office. It can also give you a "bug eyed" feeling and cause dry mouth,dizziness and hallucinations.

Ginger has been studied as an anti-nausant prior to surgery but there is no formal info on prevention of motion sickness. It also has to be taken 4 times a day to be effective.

The sea-bands (bands that have a pressure point at your wrist) seem to work for some.

For what ever med you try, be sure to try it "on dry land" to make sure you don't experience any side effects or drug interactions. You can ask your local pharmacist about these too. Or you can E-mail me and I will try to help.

Have a bubbly fun time on your cruise!

Jacquelyn Sisk, RPh



A "Wonderful" time 10/99
A "Magical" trip for 5/01
WDW 7/4-13/01, 12/29-1/2/02, 6/25-7/2/02 and another if we can sneek it in!

 

[CyndiRae1]

I have used it also....works great and is what I am planning on taking with on our trip which includes the cruise!!

 

[BuzzMe]

Ginger capsules (purchased at health food store ) always work great for us. No side effects at all. On particularly rough seas during a Windjammer cruise we were among the few guests able to enjoy dinner!

 

[Doctor P]

Meclizine is great. My doctor prescribed it for some relatively severe benign positional vertigo I was having (before it went to OTC status). It works great (I took a really rough series of flights one day and felt a little jossled, but I was not getting sick like most of the other passengers!).

 

[tink2dw]

 

[poohraedopey]

i doubt it will get me on the rides but it may help me survive the plane LOL!

Love bonine so this should be good!

 

[tink2dw]

Time to bump this up!!

 

[Spirit Feather]

:Commercial on:

Bonine changed my daughter's life, too!

She would get car sick on even the shortest of rides--and we lived an hours drive from town! When she was in school she couldn't even ride the bus.

Some of the "other" motion sickness would make her groggy and make for an unenjoyable trip.

Bonine changed all that! She would take it an hour or so before travel and be fine the rest of the day.

:Commercial off:

 

[cindala]

tink2dw,

Are you sure that you don't need a prescription for these? A few years ago, we had a prescription for the 25 mg meclizine, which is the generic for antivert, an anti-dizzy medication. The only difference is that they were not chewables.

 

[tink2dw]

I went to Wal-Greens [no prescription]and asked the counter person in the pharmacy for Meclizine HCI 25mg chewable tablets,and they had it and sold me 100 ct for $9.00!! That easy!

But every state may have different rules??

 

[tink2dw]

Thanks for the new info!!

hightown
DIS Veteran

Bought it last night at Walmart. 100 tabs for 5.90 and has a shelf life till sometime in 2005. The bonine was 3.80 for 8 tabs.

Thanks for the tip

 

[dahess]

When we vacation I eat Bonine like Candy, only 3 or 4 a day of course. I truly believe they work.

 

[cindala]

I went to our local WalMart this afternoon, and the pharmacist told me that in NJ you need a prescription for the generic in the large size.

 

[shovelhd]

>Then enjoy the rides!! Meclizine changed my life!!
>I even rode space mountain 3 times in a row!!

For a moment there I thought you wrote mescaline saved my life. Saved my life too but that was another life ago!!!



Thanks for the tip on the generic.

Chris

 

[kfeuer]

Just a suggestion--if you've never taken Meclizine before, try one BEFORE your trip. The drowsiness effect hits different people in different ways. It hits my mother very hard, and she is absolutely unable to function when she takes it (it totally knocks her out). I'd hate for anyone to get to DW and discover they're the same way! So try it before you go and make sure it agrees with your body.

 

[sigafoos]

Thanks for the post! You saved me money, on our first cruise and trip to WDW I bought many packages of Bonine as I get car sick and sick on rides so I use alot! I went to my pharmacy yesterday and asked for generic Bonine and I got a bottle of 100 for 5.90!
So simple yet because it is kept behind the counter instead of on the shelf with the other motion sickness meds I never knew about the generic bottle!
Kim

 

[tink2dw]

Bumping up for more to see1

 

[tink2dw]

 

[n2mm]

I plan to give it a try this trip. So far the only thing that works is the prescriptin patch. I asked at my local Wal-Mart this weekend and was told that they do NOT have the generic version of bonine, so had to buy the 8 pill pack for $3 ish. Leave in a couple of days and will post back. I've tried the sea ban wrist bans and they did NOT work for me. The transdermal prescription patch works, but the side effects are tough to deal with (blurred vision make it impossible to read menus).

 

[Ethelina]

If you are on medicine for high blood pressure, can you still use this for seasickness?? Any problems with drug interaction?

Thanks

E