Motion Sickness Resource Thread

Scopace in pill form.  You need to get it from a Doc but it works for me every time.

My experience tried pill first time at sws and again at shelter cove after chumming results it keeps you where ever you are at meaning if your stomach is already upset and you take it  you still have an upset stomach but you won't chum again. So the idea is take it nomatter what I get sick in the smallest swells and if I take it at least an hour before I'm good to go.
 Next is the patch same prescript the pill is good but under really nasty conditions I still get a little sick but with the patch I was out  with swells and wind that literally snapped you up down so fast you felt like you were on a roller coaster nothing but white caps and every wave was hitting my lap no sickness and caught 7 rocks and one  22" ling ( yes I know I should not have been out there )
Doesn't make me drowsy either

Just tried out my new FF after rigging it up over the last week. Now, I wasn't out to fish, really, I was just out to see how the FF worked.
After about a half hour of floating around the Tualatin River with my eyes glued to the readings and controls of the FF, I started to feel a little uneasy. All of the sudden, I realized the same woozy feeling happened to me while I was a passenger on a racetrack in Germany videoing the entire course, eyes glued to the monitor. Except it was friggin' horrible. It took me an entire day to recover.
The Tualatin is hardly a river that moves, but the slight side-to-side movement and intense focus on the FF screen made me slightly nauseous.

I will *probably* need some sort of motion sickness remedy when  I first hit the salt, and I will have to remember not to spend so much time looking down.

Sounds to me like a lot of you have gotten seasick, and some of you still do. Bummer. 

Back to kids on airplanes. 

The screaming kids and infants are probably uncomfortable more because they don't know how to equalize their ears upon elevation changes.   Just have to give them a thick drink to suck through a straw after taking off, or a balloon to inflate when they are landing.  This will usually calm most kids.

Scopace pills are also my drug of choice.

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After about a half hour of floating around the Tualatin River with my eyes glued to the readings and controls of the FF, I started to feel a little uneasy.
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I will *probably* need some sort of motion sickness remedy when I first hit the salt, and I will have to remember not to spend so much time looking down.

Not necessarily.  I too get queasy if I read on a bus, and you'll never find me on a amusement park ride, but I have no problem on a boat.  I think often the issue is that under certain conditions your body has a hard time reconciling two different frames of reference (FoR) when you are focused on your local FoR.  On a boat the two frames are, the local boat, and the external horizon and the distant sea.  When the external frame induces random unattributable movements in your local frame your brain and equilibrium become confused and you become woozy.  It could be as simple as being able to relax your eyes and let them focus at infinity.  While you are fishing you'll not be glued to the FF. 

How do you do on small power boats?

Back to kids on airplanes. 

The screaming kids and infants are probably uncomfortable more because they don't know how to equalize their ears upon elevation changes.   Just have to give them a thick drink to suck through a straw after taking off, or a balloon to inflate when they are landing.  This will usually calm most kids.

We always kept our kids hungry prior to take off, then gave them a bottle as soon as the wheels were off the ground.  They were fine until about 4-5 hours in when they start getting antsy.  Thats why I avoided passenger jets when I could and rode C17s whenever possible.  Nothing like a wide open flying playground to keep a kid happy.

@Demonick~  I've always done great on small craft, in fact, I always liked the wave action from passing boats. It's just since that racetrack experience that I've been a bit sensitive to motion ie. watching my kid on a swing, etc..
I'll just have some backup in the form of ginger/dramamine/wrist bracelets in case I start feeling weird on in the ocean.

@Demonick~  I've always done great on small craft, in fact, I always liked the wave action from passing boats. It's just since that racetrack experience that I've been a bit sensitive to motion ie. watching my kid on a swing, etc..

Sounds like the anxiety over perhaps getting queasy is enabling the queasy to some extent. 

@Demonick~  I've always done great on small craft, in fact, I always liked the wave action from passing boats. It's just since that racetrack experience that I've been a bit sensitive to motion ie. watching my kid on a swing, etc..

Sounds like the anxiety over perhaps getting queasy is enabling the queasy to some extent. 

Agreed!

I asked my doctor for a prescription for Scopace, and he responded that the drug is no longer available in pill form in the United States.  Does anybody know anything about this?

You can ask for a Scopalamine patch to place behind the ear. They are good for about 72 hours & I suggest placing it a day before going out. Only complaint of side effects I've heard is that it causes dry mouth. Happy nausea free fishing!
Hugh

You definitely want the transderm scopalamine patch.  Put it on the night before and bring plenty of water with you.  I get seasick, easy, but with those patches, I'm good for the ENTIRE DAY even if it's craptastic conditions.  It helped make my 2014 Salmon season amazing!

Went tuna fishing out of Westport.  Crossed the bar and the seas didn't calm down the entire 12 hour steam to get out there.  I had heard of a drug called Bonine.  Grabbed a bottle from Rite Aid right before I got on board as a "what if" kinda thing.  Let me tell you if I hadn't have brought those, the trip would have been ruined.  The wife, myself, and another friend all took them when we started getting queasy.  Fast dissolvable tablet and works in about 15 minutes.  Will always have it with me now.  Costs about 7 bucks and zero side effects that we noticed.  Fish On!

I've used Bonine for several years now for my kids and guests on my PB.  Has worked every time.  Most people that have used it on my boat have been quite tired. 

My 13 year old son slept all the way back in one day on my 21' center console on a day when the CR bar cranked up to 10' plus.  It was hairy, and he never stopped snoring.  Laid himself down on an ice chest between the leaning post and helm.   Spray hitting so hard and fast it was like a monsoon.  Kid was out for the count. 

Bonine -- or Meclizine  "non drowsy" -- racks me out tired for the day! It's exhausting trying to stay ahead of the sleepies, about the only antidote is a frantic tuna frenzy on a bait stop, or 24hrs of sleep.   Even worse is sea sickness, so I still pop the pills.   I've heard Scopace in pill form is available from a compounding pharmacy on special order - I'm pursuing that avenue since I really did not like the scopalomine patch (that made me nauseous and sick to start with!).  Maybe it gets better with age??