Motion Sickness?

Never experienced car/motion sickness until I was about 27 and was in the rolling hills of Missouri.

I now wear the motion sickness pressure bands when I anticipate trouble. They work very well for me.

I get sick in airplanes or cars. Riding in the front seat helps as well as being the driver.

Yes, I've always had problems with motion sickness. In a car, I'm okay in the front and sometimes in the back depending on the driver. I always get sick on a boat. From a ferry to a cruise ship, it makes no difference. I don't cruise but I still take ferries if I have to. When I do, I have to stand on deck with the wind blowing on me to not get sick.

The only time I ever felt anything that I think was considered motion sickness is when I was about 7 months pregnant. We were fishing on my parent’s boat. I went down into the cabin area for the first time on that trip and barely made it back up the stairs to throw up over the edge of the boat. Of course those on the boat got a good laugh out of it. I was well past the stage of morning sickness, so I really don’t think it was that. The pregnancy probably did have something to do with it though because it had never happened before and didn’t happen again after my son was born.

I've only experienced it once - when we were on a whale watching trip and the weather turned and it got REALLY rough before we could make it back to the marine.

I grew up sailing on the Columbia, including sleeping on our boat a lot, and I have long wondered if my early and consistent exposure to that helped me avoid motion sickness.

I’ve only had it once…sailing out on the open ocean on a sailboat. Cars, rides, other types of sailing are fine.

Honestly, no.

Been on some rough seas too. I make a point to be outside on a deck during it (fresh air really helps) and keep my eyes on the horizon.

Never been car or airplane sick either.

I get car sick if I am a passenger and the driver reverses for a little too long. My husband and I went on a road trip to Big Sur years ago and he asked me to check something on the map and I told him only if he wanted me to hurl in the car. When I was a kid and we’d stay at my aunt and uncles cabin in Big Bear my family always joked I had a spot during the drive down the mountain where I’d always puke.

I did a blind medical study on a boat for a motion sickness medication and it was horrendous. Worth the money I made but only because I must have gotten the drug, so I didn’t puke but I felt awful the entire time. They took us out to deep waters and just let us float and the bobbing up and down nearly took me out.

yes, unfortunately... cars, boats, busses, trains, and planes. Ever since I was a kid. We went on our first cruise in 2017 and I was scared that I was going to spend the whole time feeling yucky! A nurse friend suggested meclizine (generic from WalMart). I took it in the evening at dinner every night. By the time the sleepy effects were taking hold, I was going to bed anyhow. It was a wonder drug! Lasts 24 hours. I don't take it when we go on car rides though, because I don't want to be sleepy if I have to drive.

I learned that boats will make me sick. We took a deep sea fishing day trip. Boat leaves Galveston, goes out for 4 hours, stops for fishing for 4 hours and then 4 hours back to shore. I had never had motion sickness at that time, so it never entered my mind. While we were waiting to board the ship/boat 2 girls were taking pills and I wondered, "Will I get sick?" Sure enough, I was hanging on the rail and throwing up like crazy. I was so sick another man, also sick, gave me some pills. I had to go lie on beds they had for the people who were sick. When the boat stopped for the fishing, I was just fine. (caught some red snappers). When boat began to return to shore, I was sick again.

Wrist bands: Don't leave home without them!!

Fortunately I’ve rarely had issues with motion sickness. The one exception was two years ago when my sister and I took the Cat from Maine to Nova Scotia during rough seas. I was okay as long as I stayed still. Neither of us ate for about 24 hours afterwards. 

My daughter has to drive or be in the front seat, can not read anything at all while riding in the car, and discovered last year, during flights to accompany her daughter to visits to her father in Florida, that she gets very sick on airplanes now. She didn’t several years ago. I can only imagine she’d be very sick on boats. 

I had it badly my entire life…until I got cataract surgery and they put in new lenses in my eye.  Voila!  No more car sickness.

I chalk this up to not having astigmatisms anymore.

Really bad! I had it as a child and still do now. Where I grew up is at the base of the mountains, and on weekends my parents would drive there for walks/picnics etc, but it's a lot of twisty roads and I'd often be sitting on the floor in the back with a vomit bag...my parents used to think I was exaggerating, but 50+ years later I'm still the same.
The only mode of transport I don't get sick on is a plane.
Cars & buses are the worst, I can't look down at all, and it depends on the driver too - if they hit the brakes too hard...that's it for me. There's some people I'll never get in a car with again.
If it's on a track (train or tram) I'm usually OK if I just look straight ahead, can't look down and sometimes can't even look out of the window.

I get it in the cinema as well unless I sit at the back and can see the edges of the screen. I got really motion sick watching Titanic and had to rush to the bathroom! And some movies where the camera work is jerky, or if it spins around, I'm out.
Even on small screen like a TV or a computer, I can't watch or play video games where characters move around the screen, I can't watch videos of rollercoasters.
I know better than to even try 'virtual reality' anything.

It's a nightmare, but nothing I can do about it, except to avoid doing the things that trigger it. It's not just the sick/vomity/burpy feeling while I'm in motion...it can last for a couple of hours afterwards too.,

I have never had any kind of motion sickness. I'm sorry for those who do. That has to be miserable.