Anyone get motion-sickness worse as an adult?

[CloudBee]

Yep - I always got car sick as a kid, but not as much now that I'm always in the front seat.

But amusement park rides, omg. They never used to bother me, but once I hit 20 they've really taken a toll on me. I have to be really careful with what I eat and how I sit, etc., on rides now.

Trains get to me sometimes, too.

Benadryl helps a TON. I even remember my mom giving it to me during car rides when I was a kiddo.

[sa]

I don't get it nearly as bad as you, but when I do, I make sure to focus my eyes on one stationary object. I find if I move my eyes around it just makes it worse.

Also, taking slow deep breaths seems to help.

[CloudBee]

It's also much worse with me pregnant, too. The drive in to work every morning is brutal. I have to drink chocolate milk. It's the only thing that helps. Protein + sugar.

[gibbinator]

Yeah I get it pretty bad. Some tricks:

I take 1/2 a gravol on long trips - enough to tame the nausea without getting drowsy.

Look as far out the window as you can. Not so easy on a subway though...

Try to stay cool. If I'm bundled up and overheating it's so much worse

[thedutchgirl]

Yup. As a child, I could read books in the car. Now I get sick reading billboards as they go by.

I swear by these, which I leaned about from my SIL when she was pregnant with her first. Suck on one, and the nausea goes away. I use it all the time on the bus/lightrail.

www.amazon.com/The-Ginger-People-Peanut-3-Ounce/dp/B00685RSXI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1354029886&sr=8-2&keywords=peanut+ginger+chews

[Deleted]

are you pg?

I used to get it on the T if I didn't have a full stomach.

[bookqueen15]

I am usually just a lurker but thought I would chime in. I get motion sickness on pretty much any moving vehicle and have since I was a kid. Less drowsy dramamine or Bonine work really well for me and don't make me sleepy at all. Also, is there any way you can try to face forward? There is no way I can ride in any moving vehicle facing a different way than the vehicle is going, that beings on the motion sickness even quicker!

[LoveTrains]

Can you switch to taking vitamins on a full stomach? I can't take any vitamins before I eat breakfast otherwise I will hurl.

[Deleted]

I have found this to be the case in the last year or two when I sit in the back seat of a car. Sometimes the front, but usually only if DH is driving and there is a lot of traffic (he tends to do a lot of fast starts and stops when he's trying to get around people). I don't have this issue when I'm the one driving.

I find deep breaths and starting straight forward helps. Or closing my eyes. Can you focus on something on the train that is inside so it's not moving? Sometimes watching blurs go by seems to be the worst part.

I have heard ginger helps, too. Maybe take a ginger pill in the morning before leaving? Obviously dramamine works too but that's not a great daily solution, especially since it makes you sleepy. I don't think ginger would hurt to take daily but I'd do more research first if I were you

[rosetyler]

I never had it as a kid, could read in the car for hours.

Are you looking at your phone on the train? That would do me in - when I focus on things at different distances, flipping back and forth, like reading a bit on my phone, looking around, the looking out the window, I get really nauseated. I pretty much have to just fix on a point and only look at things in that range.

[Norticprincess]

Ginger candy in the white package with blue,yellow, and red accents on the end or the gold package, neither is very hot like GingGings. They are pretty small, you can just toss some in a pocket. I take them on dive boats, they take the edge off if i forget my patch. Wegmans had it, as does the one Asian market on Rockville pike. Not sure if the ginger really does anything by itself, but focusing on the candy instead of the sick feeling seems to take the edge off of it. I used them with my antimetics during active chemo, doc said it wouldn't hurt.

[ijack]

Yes, it has something to do with getting old. Also, it can get way worse after you have kids - just a warning. The first (and only) time I rode a carousel after Q was born I thought I was going to die and had to ask the operator to stop it

[grk2012]

Taking B6 (started it for pregnancy nausea per my OB) is a sure nausea relief for me. I take it once in awhile now when feeling a little queasy, or before a flight or long car trip.

[rosetyler]

Nov 27, 2012 10:58:09 GMT -5 swizzlestx said:

Thanks all!

Sometimes I use my phone, sometimes not. I typically ONLY play games (I don't get service for most of the ride), so there are no words. It was helping for a while because it was something to focus on.

I try really hard to sit forward, but I maybe get a seat 50% of the time, and I'm usually just at the mercy of the spare room I can find (DC folks, it's Orange line, also lovingly nicknamed The Orange Crush.)

FWIW, I feel even sicker playing games in a moving vehicle than I do reading. Audio books might be the way to go!

[cjeanette]

I have to snack on trail mix or something.

[cajunmom]

I never got motion sickness until I was pg for the first time. Now I get it pretty easily, especially as a passenger in a car. I've found that sour candy helps some, so I always have lemon drops handy.

[Laura Palmer]

I had horrible nausea and dizziness...Ignored it, everyone said it was normal, etc. Until I was vomiting daily. Turns out I had a brain tumor. Go to the Dr. and make sure nothing else is going on. If they didn't catch mine in time, I wouldn't be here right now. Hopefully it's nothing and dramamine (chewable are more effective IMO!) will help. (Or a Dr. can give you Zofran, which is a miracle drug in fighting my continued nausea.)

Yes, I'm dramatic. But you never know, and it bothers me now that everyone I knew implied I was exaggerating or that it was normal, when it so clearly was not.

[Deleted]

I think ginger helps with the nausea part, or seabands.

I just wanted to add though-I get motion sickness a lot and I never had morning sickness, so there is hope!

[fortmyersbride]

Yes, mine has gotten much worse as I've gotten older.

I always face forward in a moving vehicle. I can't ride buses or in the back seat of a car. I keep zofran in my wallet since I also use it when I get migraines.

When I travel (airplane or boat) I wear a scopolamine patch. That wouldn't really help for day to day nausea during commute though.

[spindle92]

Major motion sickness here.
I can only ride in the front seat of a vehicle and god help me on public transportation.

I find chewing gum really helps me.