Mal de mer
As many long term readers may remember, when we first started out I suffered from occasional bits of sea sickness. It didn’t happen often but every once in a while, the sea conditions would set up a motion that did not sit well with me. I never got to the point of throwing up, nor did I take anything more potent than Gravol with ginger to deal with it, but it was not fun feeling that way.
For the most part, it seemed as if I had largely gotten beyond that. I’m wondering though, with all this time that we’ve spent on land, have I perhaps lost my sea legs? While I never once felt sick during our sailing trip on Sunday, I will admit that the motion on the water seemed unfamiliar to me. With a potential 440nm, multi-day passage looming ahead of us, I certainly hope that I won’t be starting back at square one!
Hey Mike
totally understand the feeling and the fear, especially as I prepared to do our Atlantic crossing from the Canary Islands to St Lucia. Typically mine would hit me at night when I lost the horizon, but I found a lovely combination of the Transderm patch and meclazine to work perfectly. I wore the patch for 3 days and then removed it and put a new one on behind the other ear for another 3 days while taking the meclazine daily. I did this for our 19 day passage and it worked really well for me – hopefully it will work for you too.
I’m hoping to get away without needing any medication. As I said in the post, I’ve yet to take any. We do carry some on board though, just in case.
I would be really careful with the Transderm Patch… try it before you set sail in case you are one of the people who have bad reactions to it. Probably good advice for whatever medication is being used, but at least for me the Transderm had bad side effects and also didn’t work.
Paul
Agreed. The last place you want to have a bad action to a drug is a couple hundred miles offshore.
No, you won’t be sick on a passage like that. You’ll be too busy thinking/questioning about EVERY little thing in/on your new boat. Good Luck!
I’m sure you’re right!