Tips for avoiding travel sickness
 

Hello,

I'm calling upon the collective millions of travel hours on here to find a long term solution to motion sickness.

Only recently has this condition come on. I used to get car sick as a child, but always explicable, but train and plane travel never affected me, and didn't until last year.

Since then I find almost all travel unbearable. The hop from Dublin to Liverpool a week or so ago nearly rendered me unconscious. I was on a tilting train from Crewe to London last week and that was deeply unpleasant.

I'm about to go on quite a long journey, featuring several planes and a long, hot, uncomfortable car ride. I need to find a solution. Do medications effectively combat even nausea? Mild or otherwise. Should I try something else? Read don't read? Middle of the plane? Edge of the plane? Aisle seat? Window seat? Medication? Certain type of tea?

I'm willing to try anything, but recently it has got to the point that I can't sit in a spinny office chair without feeling dodgy.

MM

Have you seen a doctor? That is the only advice I would trust in this situation.

If the sitting in a chair and feeling dodgy is a true statement, then I would make an appointment with the doctor.

Yeah, sounds severe enough that a doctor needs to be involved. If this has come on suddenly, then something changed that needs attention.

One tip: window seat. I get very mild motion sickness when I can't see out, but being able to correlate what I'm feeling with what the plane is doing helps me.

See a doctor!

I know of several over the counter remedies for motion sickness that can be effective in some cases but if you are having troubles sitting in a chair, it may be something else.

I've found that a "Motion Sickness Watch" works (just do an Internet search), although the electric "shocks" can be somewhat unpleasant. Various over-the-counter medicines also work.

I just avoid things that are sure to make me ill, such as Dash-8 planes and being a passenger in a car. Trains and regular planes are fine. It sounds like you have fewer options, but driving yourself might work, where feasible?