Seasickness

[LuvThatMouse]

Okay, this has probably been posted before but I'm curious how many people get seasick and what time of year they sailed?
My DH thinks seasickness is all in a person's head and I completely railed on him for saying that because I am particularly sensitive to motion sickness.
I will definitely have my dramamine on hand but just would like to know from people posting here what their experiences have been.

 

[1princessesmom]

We just got off the Magic Saturday morning and I am still feeling a bit strange now (Monday morning). I felt slightly seasick one night at dinner as the ship was noticably rocking, but other than that I felt fine until I got off the ship. It still feels like I am rocking back and forth. I hope it ends soon!

 

[mackymaddyconnorsmom]

My daughter had trouble one night on our December cruise

 

[kpgclark]

From WebMD:
Motion sickness occurs when the inner ear, the eyes, and other areas of the body that detect motion send conflicting messages to the brain.1 One part of your balance-sensing system (your inner ear, vision, and sensory nerves that help you keep your balance) may indicate that your body is moving, while the other parts do not sense motion. For example, if you are in the cabin of a moving ship, your inner ear may sense the motion of big waves, but your eyes don't see any movement. This leads to a conflict between the senses and results in motion sickness.

 

[dandbsmom]

My DH was very paranoid about getting seasick and didn't. We had some rough seas while we were trying to out run a storm on Fri night (Capt said seas were 8-10) but it wasn't that bad. My DSs thought it was kind of neat since they got some of the sea "experience"!

 

[LuvThatMouse]

From WebMD:
Motion sickness occurs when the inner ear, the eyes, and other areas of the body that detect motion send conflicting messages to the brain.1 One part of your balance-sensing system (your inner ear, vision, and sensory nerves that help you keep your balance) may indicate that your body is moving, while the other parts do not sense motion. For example, if you are in the cabin of a moving ship, your inner ear may sense the motion of big waves, but your eyes don't see any movement. This leads to a conflict between the senses and results in motion sickness.

This is the reason we got an Oceanview cabin.

I do remember being on a much smaller boat many years ago and I was very concerned about getting seasick. It was one of those 3 decker boats that people take out on Long Island Sound and other smaller bodies of water. I didn't get sick but my date for the evening was heaving all night long. Serves him right as he was flirting with another girl the whole evening. Needless to say it was our last date.

 

[mickeyfanmom]

We just got off the ship on Saturday and I am also still feeling like I am on it like 1princessmom.

The last night of our cruise was particularly rough. From reading these boards it does not seem like you can plan around seasickness. Even though nobody in our family was adversely affected by the motion of the ship, I do not for one minute believe that it is "all in your head."

You definitely feel the ship moving. Those people that say that you can't are full of it! We actually love the rocking of the ship, but many do not. On the bridge tour we learned that the stabilizers acutally cut the motion felt by 90%- but you can still feel the rest of it!

Just take your Dramamine with you, don't worry and enjoy! It is so much fun and I am so sad to be back home and not on the Magic anymore!

 

[bbowers]

We sailed between hurricanes last year and had the smoothest seas we could have asked for. I took a Bonine every morning, though, just in case.