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| [GMCnet] Motion Sickness Remedy [message #228076] |
Fri, 01 November 2013 17:12  |
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I suspect that simply eating Ginger Snap cookies might be cheaper, maybe at least as effective, and more pleasurable! These have been used by boaters for many years to help out.
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Stick, try ginger capsules for motion sickness. available at health food
stores.
Way less than $125 to try.
RonC
On Fri, 01 Nov 2013 10:51:29 -0500 Stick Miller <stickmiller@gmail.com>
writes:
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> I get pretty carsick if I'm not driving. I bought a wrist device
> from The Sharper Image that sends mild shock waves to the underside
> of the wrist. Supposed to alleviate the problem. No cigar.
>
> The only shockwave I felt was when the charge hit my wallet and
> alleviated me of $125.
> --
> Stick Miller
> '78 Royale - she left me for another man
> '76 Eleganza - "Cousin Eddie"
> Americus, Georgia
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| Re: [GMCnet] Motion Sickness Remedy [message #228084 is a reply to message #228076] |
Fri, 01 November 2013 18:19  |
JohnL455
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Try MotionEaze Little vial of oils like peppermint and others. You put one drop on your finger tip and rub on your head right behind your earlobe on both sides of your head. No groggy side effects. One vial will last you quite a while.
John Lebetski
Woodstock, IL
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| Re: [GMCnet] Motion Sickness Remedy [message #228105 is a reply to message #228096] |
Fri, 01 November 2013 19:37 |
stick miller
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Thanks for all the remedies, guys. Believe me, I've tried them all. I can not even watch a movie with a lot of motion (Perfect Storm) without nausea.
Porch swings drive nuts.
Stick Miller
'78 Royale - "White Trash" - she left me for another man
'76 Eleganza - "Cousin Eddie" Sold
'84 Bluebird Wanderlodge - "Past Tents"
Americus, GA
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| Re: [GMCnet] Motion Sickness Remedy [message #228112 is a reply to message #228105] |
Fri, 01 November 2013 19:46 |
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Stick,
My Dad found out I had a problem with motion sickness when he took me to Palisades Park and we rode the roller coaster. I puked out
the side of the car after the first drop!
It was particularly embarrassing for me as a Hamilton Standard Field Rep as I'd get queasy upon approach but if I was lucky and
could direct a blast of cool air from the gaspers in the overhead I could make it without a Technicolor yawn.
I stumbled on to some bands that pressed on what the Chinese called the nei wan (sp?) pressure points on the underside of your
wrists which worked amazingly well for me. I carry a pair whenever I fly.
Regards,
Rob M.
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From: gmclist-bounces@temp.gmcnet.org [mailto:gmclist-bounces@temp.gmcnet.org] On Behalf Of Stick Miller
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 7:37 PM
To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Motion Sickness Remedy
Thanks for all the remedies, guys. Believe me, I've tried them all. I can not even watch a movie with a lot of motion (Perfect
Storm) without nausea.
Porch swings drive nuts.
--
Stick Miller
'78 Royale - she left me for another man
'76 Eleganza - "Cousin Eddie"
Americus, Georgia
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| Re: [GMCnet] Motion Sickness Remedy [message #228266 is a reply to message #228076] |
Sun, 03 November 2013 09:07 |
Kudzu
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I spent 9 days on a 52 foot sailboat in constant heavy seas. The wrist
bands that zap you are crap. Being up top in the breeze was the only
thing that would make the nausea subside. I think the bands are meant to
distract you from the real problem by giving you a little shock.
On a subsequent trip (yes, I tried it again) on a 110 footer, a ginger
pill the first day was all I needed, although the seas were pretty
light. One wave of nausea but a quick glance back at the horizon helped
choke it down.
Dan in NC
1976 Eleganza II
On 11/1/2013 6:12 PM, D C _Mac_ Macdonald wrote:
> I suspect that simply eating Ginger Snap cookies might be cheaper, maybe at least as effective, and more pleasurable! These have been used by boaters for many years to help out.
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> On Fri, 01 Nov 2013 10:51:29 -0500 Stick Miller <stickmiller@gmail.com>
> writes:
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>> I get pretty carsick if I'm not driving. I bought a wrist device
>> from The Sharper Image that sends mild shock waves to the underside
>> of the wrist. Supposed to alleviate the problem. No cigar.
>>
>> The only shockwave I felt was when the charge hit my wallet and
>> alleviated me of $125.
>>
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| Re: [GMCnet] Motion Sickness Remedy [message #228271 is a reply to message #228266] |
Sun, 03 November 2013 09:36 |
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USAussie
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Dan,
The wrist bands I have do not "zap" me, they do not have any electrical connections and they work for me.
http://www.walgreens.com/store/c/sea-band-wristband/ID=prod2662944-product
Read the customer comments.
Maybe my motion sickness is psychosomatic and my belief in the bands is why they work. ;-)
They only cost $12 so what the hell!
Regards,
Rob M.
The Pedantic Mechanic
USAussie - Downunder
USA '75 Avion - Double Trouble TZE365V100426
AUS '75 Avion - The Blue Streak TZE365V100428
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Jarvis
I spent 9 days on a 52 foot sailboat in constant heavy seas. The wrist
bands that zap you are crap. Being up top in the breeze was the only
thing that would make the nausea subside. I think the bands are meant to
distract you from the real problem by giving you a little shock.
On a subsequent trip (yes, I tried it again) on a 110 footer, a ginger
pill the first day was all I needed, although the seas were pretty
light. One wave of nausea but a quick glance back at the horizon helped
choke it down.
Dan
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Rob M. (USAussie)
The Pedantic Mechanic
Sydney, Australia
'75 Avion - AUS - The Blue Streak TZE365V100428
'75 Avion - USA - Double Trouble TZE365V100426
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| Re: [GMCnet] Motion Sickness Remedy [message #228275 is a reply to message #228271] |
Sun, 03 November 2013 09:59 |
Kudzu
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Yeah, I think the ones the skipper had were the $125-type ones.
Definitely zapped!
Not planning on a sail any time soon but next time, I'll look at these.
Dan in NC
1976 Eleganza II
On 11/3/2013 10:36 AM, Rob Mueller wrote:
> Dan,
>
> The wrist bands I have do not "zap" me, they do not have any electrical connections and they work for me.
>
> http://www.walgreens.com/store/c/sea-band-wristband/ID=prod2662944-product
>
> Read the customer comments.
>
> Maybe my motion sickness is psychosomatic and my belief in the bands is why they work. ;-)
>
> They only cost $12 so what the hell!
>
> Regards,
> Rob M.
> The Pedantic Mechanic
> USAussie - Downunder
> USA '75 Avion - Double Trouble TZE365V100426
> AUS '75 Avion - The Blue Streak TZE365V100428
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| Re: [GMCnet] Motion Sickness Remedy [message #228278 is a reply to message #228275] |
Sun, 03 November 2013 10:12 |
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USAussie
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David,
No bloody way would I spend $125!!!
Reminds me of the Relax-a-sisor my Mom bought in the 1960's. It was a system that had patches you would stick wherever you wanted to
loose weight and it would send electrical charges to the muscles every so often and cause them to contract.
Regards,
Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: gmclist-bounces@temp.gmcnet.org [mailto:gmclist-bounces@temp.gmcnet.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Jarvis
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2013 9:59 AM
To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Motion Sickness Remedy
Yeah, I think the ones the skipper had were the $125-type ones.
Definitely zapped!
Not planning on a sail any time soon but next time, I'll look at these.
Dan in NC
1976 Eleganza II
On 11/3/2013 10:36 AM, Rob Mueller wrote:
> Dan,
>
> The wrist bands I have do not "zap" me, they do not have any electrical connections and they work for me.
>
> http://www.walgreens.com/store/c/sea-band-wristband/ID=prod2662944-product
>
> Read the customer comments.
>
> Maybe my motion sickness is psychosomatic and my belief in the bands is why they work. ;-)
>
> They only cost $12 so what the hell!
>
> Regards,
> Rob M.
> The Pedantic Mechanic
> USAussie - Downunder
> USA '75 Avion - Double Trouble TZE365V100426
> AUS '75 Avion - The Blue Streak TZE365V100428
>
>
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'75 Avion - USA - Double Trouble TZE365V100426
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| Re: [GMCnet] Motion Sickness Remedy [message #228284 is a reply to message #228271] |
Sun, 03 November 2013 10:42 |
jhbridges
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Placebo effect is quite real. If it works for you, keep it up. Options are dramamine or scopalomine patches. Both will make you sleepy to a degree, but when the option is the ongoing taste of a$$hole and/or shoe leather, they're golden. My father used tio get seasick standing on floating docks in the Alabama lakes, or the front porch (deck?) of our houseboat. Brother inherited it from him. Fortunately I didn't.
--johnny
From: Rob Mueller <robmueller@iinet.net.au>
To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
Sent: Sunday, November 3, 2013 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Motion Sickness Remedy
Dan,
The wrist bands I have do not "zap" me, they do not have any electrical connections and they work for me.
http://www.walgreens.com/store/c/sea-band-wristband/ID=prod2662944-product
Read the customer comments.
Maybe my motion sickness is psychosomatic and my belief in the bands is why they work. ;-)
They only cost $12 so what the hell!
Regards,
Rob M.
The Pedantic Mechanic
USAussie - Downunder
USA '75 Avion - Double Trouble TZE365V100426
AUS '75 Avion - The Blue Streak TZE365V100428
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Jarvis
I spent 9 days on a 52 foot sailboat in constant heavy seas. The wrist
bands that zap you are crap. Being up top in the breeze was the only
thing that would make the nausea subside. I think the bands are meant to
distract you from the real problem by giving you a little shock.
On a subsequent trip (yes, I tried it again) on a 110 footer, a ginger
pill the first day was all I needed, although the seas were pretty
light. One wave of nausea but a quick glance back at the horizon helped
choke it down.
Dan
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| Re: [GMCnet] Motion Sickness Remedy [message #228288 is a reply to message #228284] |
Sun, 03 November 2013 11:03 |
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Myth Busters tested a number of non prescription remedies, ginger was far
and away the most effective.
Plato seems wrong to me today.
On Nov 3, 2013 8:42 AM, "Johnny Bridges" <jhbridges@ymail.com> wrote:
> Placebo effect is quite real. If it works for you, keep it up. Options
> are dramamine or scopalomine patches. Both will make you sleepy to a
> degree, but when the option is the ongoing taste of a$$hole and/or shoe
> leather, they're golden. My father used tio get seasick standing on
> floating docks in the Alabama lakes, or the front porch (deck?) of our
> houseboat. Brother inherited it from him. Fortunately I didn't.
>
> --johnny
>
>
> From: Rob Mueller <robmueller@iinet.net.au>
> To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
> Sent: Sunday, November 3, 2013 10:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Motion Sickness Remedy
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> Dan,
>
> The wrist bands I have do not "zap" me, they do not have any electrical
> connections and they work for me.
>
> http://www.walgreens.com/store/c/sea-band-wristband/ID=prod2662944-product
>
> Read the customer comments.
>
> Maybe my motion sickness is psychosomatic and my belief in the bands is
> why they work. ;-)
>
> They only cost $12 so what the hell!
>
> Regards,
> Rob M.
> The Pedantic Mechanic
> USAussie - Downunder
> USA '75 Avion - Double Trouble TZE365V100426
> AUS '75 Avion - The Blue Streak TZE365V100428
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Jarvis
>
> I spent 9 days on a 52 foot sailboat in constant heavy seas. The wrist
> bands that zap you are crap. Being up top in the breeze was the only
> thing that would make the nausea subside. I think the bands are meant to
> distract you from the real problem by giving you a little shock.
>
> On a subsequent trip (yes, I tried it again) on a 110 footer, a ginger
> pill the first day was all I needed, although the seas were pretty
> light. One wave of nausea but a quick glance back at the horizon helped
> choke it down.
>
> Dan
>
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| Re: [GMCnet] Motion Sickness Remedy [message #228380 is a reply to message #228076] |
Mon, 04 November 2013 07:15 |
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26 years in the USN, and all but 11 of them at sea. 15-20 typhoons, 6
weeks in a storm in the Bearing sea. Never so much as a queasy feeling.
Loved those short chow lines too. Years later I get in a driving
simulator at the San Bernadino Sheriff's EVOC training facility and within
one minute I was dripping perspiration and looking for a place to empty my
stomach into. Worse feeling I've ever had. The next class day back in San
Diego I told my instructor that if I had to do that to pass, I wasn't going
to make it. He asked me why I didn't put the wristbands on. "Didn't know
about them" I responded. He told me to look on the instructors desk for
small wrist bands that looked like sweat bands for tennis players and take
a couple and put them on with the sewn in beads pressing against the inside
of my wrist. Magic. PFM! I guess the term is acupressure and it really
worked.
Steve F.
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:12 PM, D C _Mac_ Macdonald <k2gkk@hotmail.com>wrote:
> I suspect that simply eating Ginger Snap cookies might be cheaper, maybe
> at least as effective, and more pleasurable! These have been used by
> boaters for many years to help out.
>
>
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> ~ ~ Amateur Radio - K2GKK ~ ~
> ~ ~ USAF and FAA, Retired ~ ~
> ~ ~ ~ Oklahoma City, OK ~ ~ ~
> ~~ ~ ~ "The Money Pit" ~ ~ ~~
> ~ ~ ~ ~ TZE166V101966 ~ ~ ~ ~
> ~ ~ ~ '76 ex-Palm Beach ~ ~ ~
> ~~ k2gkk + hotmail dot com ~~
> ~ www.gmcmhphotos.com/okclb ~
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> Stick, try ginger capsules for motion sickness. available at health food
> stores.
> Way less than $125 to try.
>
> RonC
>
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> On Fri, 01 Nov 2013 10:51:29 -0500 Stick Miller <stickmiller@gmail.com>
> writes:
> >
> >
> > I get pretty carsick if I'm not driving. I bought a wrist device
> > from The Sharper Image that sends mild shock waves to the underside
> > of the wrist. Supposed to alleviate the problem. No cigar.
> >
> > The only shockwave I felt was when the charge hit my wallet and
> > alleviated me of $125.
> > --
> > Stick Miller
> > '78 Royale - she left me for another man
> > '76 Eleganza - "Cousin Eddie"
> > Americus, Georgia
> >
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| Re: [GMCnet] Motion Sickness Remedy [message #228391 is a reply to message #228387] |
Mon, 04 November 2013 09:15 |
stick miller
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I'm going to give the wrist band a try. I pass up deep-sea fishing almost daily because of the problem. My buddy with the boat would bring me back in if the bands didn't work.
Thanks for the tips...and I still love Ginger Snaps.
Stick Miller
'78 Royale - "White Trash" - she left me for another man
'76 Eleganza - "Cousin Eddie" Sold
'84 Bluebird Wanderlodge - "Past Tents"
Americus, GA
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| Re: [GMCnet] Motion Sickness Remedy [message #228393 is a reply to message #228387] |
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My bride (who is a real "nervous Nellie" when as passenger
in ANY vehicle swears by Meclazine (not sure of spelling).
Even the old Dramamine has changed their pills to this. I
can't tell you if it works or not (on our last cruise the
pursers desk was handy them out like candy) but we had VERY
rough seas for 2 days and I never got sick. The reason that
I cannot tell of they work or not is that I never got drowsy
(understand that I get fall asleep even using products that
claim to NOT make you drowsy).
tt
On 11/4/2013 6:25 AM, Rob Mueller wrote:
> Steve,
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> That's my experience with the bands also.
>
> Regards,
> Rob M.
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