Hi guys, my mother and I both get motion sickness very easily. Mine is so bad that I actually got a bit of motion sickness as a kid in the theatre watching The Empire Strikes Back. (The scene where Luke Skywalker is flying over the snow on ice planet Hoth.) My father was a physician, so I tried stuff. I'll tell you what I know, but of course, YMMV!

1) Look out the window. Look at the horizon. (This also works on a boat if you get seasick.) As my father said to me driving home from The Empire Strikes Back, the problem is that your eyes and the seat of your pants are telling you two different things.

2) Eat a little, but don't eat a lot. This helps more than you may think.

3) During takeoff, yeah, sitting over the wings is noticeably better than the front. When the plane rotates, sitting in the front really makes my stomach sink. As mentioned above, once in the air, everything shakes the same.

4)Ginger ale does work, but it isn't a miracle. The funny think is that the air sickness websites often say ginger ale doesn't work because it isn't made with real ginger, but where I live, Canada Dry runs ads stating "made with real ginger." WN FA immediately gave me a can of ginger ale when I said I wasn't feeling well. United did not.

5) OTC medicines (aka Dramamine) do work, but they take a while to kick in. (Don't wait until you feel bad to take one.) Again, WN gave me a package of Dramamine, UA did not.

In a pinch, e.g.- in an airport that Dramamine isn't sold (I've never found it in LAS) buy the "makes you drowsy" allergy medicine (aka Benedryl). It doesn't work as well as Dramamine, but it does work somewhat. This is in fact how motion sickness medicine was discovered: people taking allergy medicine didn't get seasick.

AFAIK, the newer non-drowsy allergy medicine (aka Claritin) has no affect on motion sickness.

Your doctor should be more than happy to prescribe you Compazine. I've used it for decades, and it really works. I don't leave home without it. (In fact, the time I flew WN and got the dramamine and ginger ale, I had stupidly packed my Compazine in my pullman, then checked the pullman.)

If you do throw up after you've taken medicine, remember that the medicine just got thrown up too, so you ought to take some more.