Seasickness: do you eventually quit getting it?

[deerlick]

This stuff was recommended to me and it has worked amazing. Mo side effects or drowsiness.

[millerwheeler]

36 years of being sea sick my dad had me out at less than 24 hours old , as a kid our weekends were filed with fishing .... still too this day I get sea sick I can laugh it off throw up and puke and rally instead I have tried everything.  I'm good till I can't see land anymore but I just know it's coming now and handle it easily . But I may try some of the new suggestions on here

[deerlick]

36 years of being sea sick my dad had me out at less than 24 hours old , as a kid our weekends were filed with fishing .... still too this day I get sea sick I can laugh it off throw up and puke and rally instead I have tried everything.  I'm good till I can't see land anymore but I just know it's coming now and handle it easily . But I may try some of the new suggestions on here

Thats how I was just puke and rally til I was recommended the meclizine, now I have zero problems

[brocka]

So I love fishing the salt, but almost every time im on it I end up sick. Like real sick can hardly function. Ive tried otc stuff with limited success, and the patch, with better success, but still end up sick.

We are considering buying a boat in the next year or so. The goal would be chasing salmon and bottomfish mostly.

Having a boat would put me in the ocean much more often then now. Will I eventually get my sea legs and quit getting sick though?!

I used to get super air and sea sick like you mentioned. What helped me, through the assistance of my mom's classes she took, was actually training my vestibular system. The main cause of motion sickness has to do with your sense of balance which is in your ears. I swam a TON when I was little and had numerous ear infections along with actual blown out ear drums.

To help repair that, I started doing a series of balance exercises a few nights per week for a while and that seemed to help.

I think their is a lot of truth to this. I used to NEVER have issues with sea sickness, however the last 4-5 years I’ve been getting sea sick really bad. It also happens to be that I’m losing my hearing In my left ear and having some issues pressurizing my ear. I would almost guarantee it goes hand in hand.


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[OutHouse]

Someone else mentioned the bonine patch. I have never used the patch but their tablets work perfect for me. When I go to Canada for saltwater we go pretty far out and the seas can be rough. I just take the pill right when I wake up at 5 and then we leave around 6. I have never become nauseous using the bonine pill (its actually a dissolve in the mouth type of thing). Would recommend trying it for sure.

[bobcat]

I went out on charter boats at Westport several times as teenager with my dad and I was always sea sick and miserable the whole time. So I never wanted to go out in the ocean any more, but a couple of years my wife and I decided to go on a charter boat out of Westport. I did not get sick at all, felt completely normal the whole time. Not sure how I always got sick before and then while not going back out on a charter boat for over thirty years, I don't get sea sick anymore. But I'll have to try again sometime and see if I get the same result.

[syoungs]

Well, i guess tough it out it is. The times ive gotten sick have been in rough seas. Tuna fishing last year was nasty all day, i made it 5 hours with the pstch before i was sick, and was still functional even after.
Ill stockpile patches and look into the zofran for sure!

The good part of having my own boat; ill never go out in water as rough as the charters ive been sickest on did lol

It wasn't that nasty out
I would say normal for a 50 mile run
I hate that people pay so much money to go fish and are miserable the whole time. Is the prescription better if you start it like a week earlier? It seems every trip I go on there are always people who are borderline on their death bed

That was nasty for a dry sider 

Pretty sure between pukes i saw you on the deck a time or 2 as well lol

[syoungs]

So I love fishing the salt, but almost every time im on it I end up sick. Like real sick can hardly function. Ive tried otc stuff with limited success, and the patch, with better success, but still end up sick.

We are considering buying a boat in the next year or so. The goal would be chasing salmon and bottomfish mostly.

Having a boat would put me in the ocean much more often then now. Will I eventually get my sea legs and quit getting sick though?!

I used to get super air and sea sick like you mentioned. What helped me, through the assistance of my mom's classes she took, was actually training my vestibular system. The main cause of motion sickness has to do with your sense of balance which is in your ears. I swam a TON when I was little and had numerous ear infections along with actual blown out ear drums.

To help repair that, I started doing a series of balance exercises a few nights per week for a while and that seemed to help.

I think their is a lot of truth to this. I used to NEVER have issues with sea sickness, however the last 4-5 years I’ve been getting sea sick really bad. It also happens to be that I’m losing my hearing In my left ear and having some issues pressurizing my ear. I would almost guarantee it goes hand in hand.


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This would make sense to me. I do have ear issues that are undiagnosed. Could be the issue, or at least part of the issue.

Im powering through regardless. Hoping to find a boat this winter/spring. Something 24-28', walk around cuddy.

[EmeraldBullet]

Ive never had an issue before with sea sickness. Perhaps its cause ive always had weird ear/balance issues so I adjusted on land first ; D 

I have some relatives that get sea sick and they swear by those magnetic bracelet things.

[Fidelk]

I crossed the North Atlantic Ocean on a freighter (with a few passengers) in September as a 9 month old baby. The ship broke down mid-crossing and drifted for several days before it could be repaired. My mother told me that I was the only non-crew that didn't get seasick. Luckily, that training session has made me "immune" to seasickness and motion sickness. Some of the biggest seas that I have been in were while crossing from France to England in the English Channel. It only made me hungry......fried chicken, fries, Ales, Cognac, cigar.

Several years later, I started taking my kids out ocean fishing and fearing possible seasickness, tried this and that as a preventative measure. Including the scopolamine  patch......but, having "immunity", I never got sick. One side effect of this drug is that it can cause mental confusion and you can get really "spaced" out. When that happened, I quit using anything and have never gotten sick. I was trying to fix something that was not broken. Truly a dreadful curse for those affected.