Dave
I suffer terrible from drowsiness after taking sea sickness pills and
can see the potential benefit of the Coke but what about popping a few
"No Doze" tablets during the day instead of the Coke. Would this work?
Any advise?
Greg Little
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On Behalf Of David Stowe
Sent: Tuesday, 9 October 2007 1:46 PM
Cc: Birding-aus Aus
Subject: Sea sickness
I have just come back from a trip to New Zealand (trip report coming
soon!) and have now found what seems to be the perfect solution for
me personally.
I am pretty sure it is thanks to Rohan Clarke who suggested
Dramamine, Coke and chips. (Coke helps offset the drowsiness from
Dramamine plus burping helps; chips are good for salt intake and
something light to keep munching on)
After a pelagic from Kaikoura, boat trip through Marlborough Sounds
(mostly pretty calm until White Rocks King Shag colony), a fishing/
pelagic trip from Stewart Island, and the ferry across the Fouveaux
Strait from Stewart Island (particularly rough), I used this
technique each time and wasn't sick at all!!
YAY!!
I might even now contemplate another pelagic from Sydney or even
Wollongong with my new found confidence!
Like i said this works for me and I'm not trying at all to rub it in
to those who haven't found a solution, but thanks to those that
helped me out.
Cheers
Dave
PS - managed to see 8 taxa of Albatross while over there including
Buller's, Salvins, both Royals
On 09/10/2007, at 10:07 AM, Fiona Anderson wrote:
> I have just been atlking to my daughter who has sea sickness very
> badly and found out the name of the drug that seems to be the most
> successful.
>
> She writes
> "I remember using some patches, but they were basically useless.
> The tablets that finally made a difference were called Stugeron. I
> believe the active ingredient is 15mg Cinnarizine. However, I was
> on them for two days before I saw any real improvement, so I’m not
> really sure if it was the tablets or just that after 6 days on the
> water I finally got my sea legs. But depressingly, only two weeks
> after leaving the ship we were on for 21 days, I went on a 3 hour
> pelagic off Kaikoura and was sick again within an hour. I hadn’t
> kept my sea legs like I had hoped. I believe that Stugeron is not
> available in Aussie, but is in the UK and USA. I’d start taking
> them a few days before travel, not just a few hours like the packet
> recommends.
>
>
>
> I have since done a few trips (only a few hours out from Cairns to
> the reef) and found that if it wasn’t too rough, Ginger tablets
> worked OK. However on these trips the ocean is usually quite calm
> and you are not often away from land. As soon as I can’t see land
> anymore, I really struggle."
>
> I hope this helps the lady who wants to take her Mum there (can't
> remember who it was now, sorry). You will both love it - I can't
> recommend Antartica and the sub-Antarctic enough. The latter is
> the best by far for birding though but the former has it for
> scenery and experience.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Fiona
> a
>
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