Land Sickness?

[TandLMommy28]

Anyone here deal with this?

I am freaking out that I will get this. I never ever get car sick but I have been known to get sick within minutes of the car stopping after a long car ride, particularly when we drive through the mountains in Pennsylvania. I call it reverse motion sickness. I'm fine while we are moving but when the motion stops, I can't seem to adjust and get really sick.

Any tips for helping that? We'd like to go to WDW for a day after the ship but I'm scared to spend the money only to be too sick to enjoy anything.

 

[Tink1010]

Anyone here deal with this?

I am freaking out that I will get this. I never ever get car sick but I have been known to get sick within minutes of the car stopping after a long car ride, particularly when we drive through the mountains in Pennsylvania. I call it reverse motion sickness. I'm fine while we are moving but when the motion stops, I can't seem to adjust and get really sick.

Any tips for helping that? We'd like to go to WDW for a day after the ship but I'm scared to spend the money only to be too sick to enjoy anything.

I have not experienced this but I wonder if you put the sea Bands used for motion sickness on before you leave the ship maybe that will help. I have to wear them while on the cruise. Good luck

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Anyone here deal with this?

I am freaking out that I will get this. I never ever get car sick but I have been known to get sick within minutes of the car stopping after a long car ride, particularly when we drive through the mountains in Pennsylvania. I call it reverse motion sickness. I'm fine while we are moving but when the motion stops, I can't seem to adjust and get really sick.

Any tips for helping that? We'd like to go to WDW for a day after the ship but I'm scared to spend the money only to be too sick to enjoy anything.

The motion sickness remedies used for travel are often used for mal de debarquement syndrome, but it hasn't been proven that they really are effective.

Generally, it doesn't involve nausea, just the rocking motion and balance issues. And, most of the time, it just takes time.

I've had it after most of my cruises, it's lasted anywhere from a couple of days to up to a month.

 

[Maggie'sMom]

I experienced it after my first cruise, but as PrincessShmoo mentioned, I didn't feel terribly nauseous. I felt like everything was rocking and that did make me lose my appetite a little, but I didn't get really sick. Disembarkment day wasn't bad at all. I was traveling home so still moving. I felt it worse the day after disembarking when I was back to work and sitting at my desk. Getting active made it go away. I went to the gym that night and worked out. I don't know if that reset my sense of balance or if my body had just had enough time to readjust, but by the time I got home from the gym I wasn't feeling it at all.

That first cruise was the only time I had it. I've never felt it again.

 

[emilymad]

We get this after every cruise. We start taking Dramamine the day we get off the cruise. It normally goes away after a few days of the Dramamine.

 

[krisinparis]

I usually have it for about a week after getting off. The actual day of disembarkation isn't so bad for me, it's always the next 2-3 days. It never affects me to the point that I can't do something, I just feel like I'm rocking a little bit.

 

[anricat]

I had this after our first cruise. DD and DH were fine but I had a lot of vertigo after our cruise. It wasn't horrifying or anything, just disconcerting. We were at WDW, like you will be. I actually felt better on rides. It was standing in line that bothered me.

For cruise number 2, I used the transform scop patch and didn't experience it at all. The patches do have some fairly serious potential side effects. I tried it out for a couple of days a month or so prior to our trip just to ensure I didn't ruin our trip with weird side effects. I did have some blurred vision close up on the last night of our cruise (I was wearing my second patch - you change every 3 days and this was the 6th day) but it wasn't enough that it bothered me much. My patch fell off the next day and I took a Bonine for our last day and was fine.

For our next cruise, I'm debating what I want to do. The patch is serious medication, and it's expensive. I'm thinking about doing about half the cruise without it and then put one on for the last three days, so I'm only using one patch. (I have one left over from our last cruise because they come 4 to a box: 1 I tested with, 2 on the cruise.)

The real question, I think is not how you are with cars, but boats. Boats are a different, more subtle motion. I the length of your cruise may also be a factor.

 

[kiford]

I usually get it after disembarkation for up to a week (although interestingly, I didn't really get it after our last 12-day cruise). I'm not nauseous, but I find myself rocking back and forth to keep feeling like I'm stable. If I don't then I feel like the world is moving and that is disconcerting. I often feel it at night in bed as though I'm gently being rocked to sleep.

 

[MaleficentRN]

I take Bonine starting two days before a cruise, during, and then two days after. Worst thing that has happened is I feel like I'm walking sideways the first day off.

 

[SpaceSquirrel]

I take Bonine starting two days before a cruise, during, and then two days after. Worst thing that has happened is I feel like I'm walking sideways the first day off.

^This!
I also wear sea bands while on the water. I think take bonine if you're concerned, start the evening before you get off the ship.

 

[bumbershoot]

I find it amusing, to feel so weird when I'm on land. So I'm too busy laughing at the feeling to notice if I'm feeling sick or not. And I'd rather be walking around (for us, our choice is) Universal rather than sitting at the airport!

We start taking Dramamine the day we get off the cruise. It normally goes away after a few days of the Dramamine.

FWIW, it goes away a few days after getting off the ship without dramamine, too.

 

[koshka]

After having land sickness after our last cruise, I did a little research. Some people recommend going to the gym the last day on the boat and vigorously exercising to prevent land sickness. Worth a try! I am going to do so on our next cruise.......

 

[kiford]

Some people recommend going to the gym the last day on the boat and vigorously exercising to prevent land sickness.

Maybe that works for some people but it certainly doesn't for me. I regularly go to the gym 4-5 times per week when I'm not on vacation. I recall once coming back from a cruise and feeling that continual swaying motion. My trainer wanted me to do push-ups and I remember feeling like the floor was constantly rushing up to meet me as though I was doing them on a ship in rough waters. It definitely didn't clear it up for me. It goes away on its own after a couple of days.