Miracle Motion Sickness cure!!

[mjh8955]

I suffer from periods of vertigo, lasting from 4 to 10 weeks, then it goes away for 6 months or longer. I do not have any nausea with it at all, thank goodness, only the sensation of having just stepped off a long train ride or a roller coaster ride. It starts about an hour after I get up in the morning. I feel like I am still moving. Affects balance just a little and is the absolute worst when I am in a tunnel or someplace enclosed without a horizon to help with my center of balance. Grocery aisles are bad. Would any of these drugs help me? I have tried meclazine which makes me so sleepy I can't function, likewise dramamine. I usually just tough it out but our Disney trip is coming up and I really don't want to feel goofy (no pun intended) while I am there walking around all day. I have to work extra hard to compensate for the balance problem, it wears me out. It starts with some kind of inner ear inflammation in my left ear, like it gets just slightly plugged up and that triggers it. If anyone knows of something that will help please PM me.

 

[Glendamax]

Great Thread! I will try my best to get the Ginger Altoids. I feel so sad when I get sick at a park.

 

[polarboi]

Apparently the ONLY difference between regular dramamine and the less drowsy version is that the less drowsy version is half the dosage of the regular! So you could buy regular dramamine and take half a pill (plus you'll have twice as many for the same price).

Actually that's not true.

Regular Dramamine is dimenhydrinate. Dramamine "Less Drowsy Formula" is meclizine hydrochloride. They're different drugs; they're just both marketed under the brand name Dramamine.

-p.b.

 

[lovethattink]

Here's the website for Transderm Scop (Scopolamine). http://www.transdermscop.com/information.htm

I had surgery recently, and the anesthesiologist placed a patch behind my ear. It worked great for preventing that post surgery nausea. I did not notice any side effects with it.

I have been on cruises where people were having nasty side effects from it. This patch is not for people with certain pre-existing conditions.

My son gets sea sick every single cruise. He uses Chewable Dramamine and those Sea Bands. We try not to give him the dramamine during the daytime. It really makes him drowsy.

If you do opt to try the patch for motion sickness, it might not hurt to ask the doc for an extra patch to try it at home first. This way you will know what side effects you will experience, if any.

 

[MN Dis Fans]

My DM is a doctor of Chinese medicine and acupuncture. When I was pregnant and traveling she prescribed some different herbs and "beads" that stuck to pressure points on my wrist. Worked pretty great and I didn't worry about the baby. But not every town has access to someone who can do that.

 

[Jennasis]

I took the patch off last night (after having worn it for 2 days as a test). No side-effects or withdrawal.

I showered with it on, I rode water rides, went to the parks wave pool, and rode high speed coasters and the thing never budged. Ask your doctor if it's right for you too! (geez...now I sound like pharmaceutical commercial).

 

[wld]

I have used transcope several times without difficulty. In the leaflet that comes with the patch it warns you not to wear it for more than a week. I have found that after 3 days when I take it off there is some residual affect for about 12 hours. I have worn it for a week changing 3 times without a problem. I do notice that for the first 2 hours or so that I put it on I am slightly nauseous but not bad. No dilation problem for me.

I have used bonine when I was out of patches one time. It works but not nearly as well as the patch. I suppose if you weren't the big.........puker I am it might be fine.

The active ingrediant in bonine is antivert which I think without looking in my drug book is meclizine. So if that didn't work for you neither would bonine although it is about half the prescription dose.

 

[Amyg]

Dramamine makes me sleepy, REAL sleepy! Scopalomine works for me but I get a strange sensation (can't describe) and Bonine is great! I was motion sick from a ride once and my brother bought me Bonine, within 15 minutes I was feeling fine!

 

[UrsulasShadow]

My son suffers hugely from motion sickness.
The only thing that has ever worked for him is a combination of SeaBands (worn on the wrists) and Dramamine (the original dimenhydrinate formula). The "less drowsy" Dramamine or Bonine (meclizine) didn't work at all for him, and when I took it on a long ferry ride, it knocked me for a loop for 12 hours! I also swear by ginger (I like the candied sort that you can get in the ethnic food section of your local grocery store), and the ginger Altoids sound promising. Unfortunately, ginger doesn't work for my son the same way. I guess it's just fiddling around with treatments to see what works for you. Never tried scopalamine, though. I've heard it works great for some people.