Car Sicknesses

DoraMarr i can't remember how long that journey is but I used to travel Newcastle to Denmark frequently, years ago. It was a day and a night. I recommend fresh air. Go out on deck when you can
Then eat dry biscuits and ginger ale or similar. Use the pressure bands.
I never took medication but took to my bunk early and usually felt the rolling less when lying down.
I asked for a cabin with a porthole too. I dislike being too low down in a ship.
When I was young I travelled the world by ship and got my sealegs after a few nights!! Enjoy your holiday.

Some people claim that copper armbands work too against any kind of motion sickness. I've never tried one for that so I don't know, but found one helpful for rheumatism.

Angelic, perhaps you should have your hearing checked as balance is controlled in some way by our inner ear.

How well do you know and trust the person driving, if it isn't yourself? I feel sick when driven by a driver whose driving scares me (they usually only get one chance.

Thank you grammaretto for you advice. We’ve booked a commodore class cabin (er, pushing the boat out?) so we have windows and a balcony ( although I should imagine a balcony might be chilly in April.) I think my partner might have to eat in the restaurant on his own while I sip water and eat crackers in the cabin!

I found the sea bands did work on a voyage DoraMarr - and the effect wasn't psychological because I forgot to put them back on after a swim and wondered why I started feeling sick.
You should be fine further up away from the engines too.

When we went on a boat Down Under they provided ginger tablets for anyone who wanted them.

I have felt decidedly nauseous when sitting in the back seat of a rear-wheel drive car with soft, bouncy suspension. Also if the driver is jerky in his/her braking and accelerating.

As a child I was travel sick then in late teens/early twenties my friends and I were out and about sometimes driving, sometimes passengers and I got used to travelling in the back of cars without feeling sick. Then I got married and DH doesn't drive so I always drove and lost my ability to be a passenger without being sick. No car now for several years but I can travel in the front without feeling sick but in the back I would have to take Stugeron - also needed for flying and coach travel. I'm fine on trains, can even read on trains and feel OK.

I have suffered with travel sickness in cars all my life. At one point I couldn’t go three/four miles into town with someone else driving. If I’m driving I’m fine. Have always been fine on planes (direct Heathrow to Perth, Australia) and always fine on trains. I presume this is because they don’t go round lots of corners and don’t stop and start so much! I’m 67 now and recently I’ve notoced that I can do longer trips with no travel problems. For very long trips I used to take Joyrides which are now very difficult to find. Usually I have Kids Kwells which work really well, hardly any sleepiness from Joyrides or Kwells, both can be taken before travel or when nausea starts.

I suffered car sickness as a child it does go as you get older

My car sickness has more or less gone. Still have to look straight ahead, can't read or look down for any length of time or sick when looking back up. Sea sickness still with me though, can't go on anything at a fare, even looking at a roundabout can make me queasy. Think the car sickness can be resurrected by the modern style of driving forced upon us at times. The race forward, brake quickly some folk being the norm , just too much jolting.

My travel sickness has worsened with age. I've found that I must eat before I travel. Some cars, especially older ones, have a smell that sets off the sickness, as do London black cabs. The new Thameslink trains have a smell and are the only trains to make me sick. Buses are always bad. Cars with low seats are also bad. I also suffer from migraine and apparently this is linked.

Thankyou for all your answers, I am trying different suggestions when I go on journeys will report back.

On The Twinstitute TV programme on BBC2 tonight they carried out experiments to see which was most effective for preventing motion sickness - acupressure bands or ginger. The ginger won.