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Somehow this used to really bother me when I was 4-8 years old, and then it stopped. I don't know if that's normal. Being directly in-line with the direction
by rdl 13y ago
Somehow this used to really bother me when I was 4-8 years old, and then it stopped. I don't know if that's normal. Being directly in-line with the direction of travel mattered then, too (now I can sit sideways in an aircraft doing a combat spiral landing and not get sick). I don't think "doing it a few times" is what stopped it for me, it was probably some morphological change as I grew up.
Presumably you've tried medication? It would probably be horrible to have to take transdermal scopolamine fairly continually, though.
- jlgreco 13y ago> Somehow this used to really bother me when I was 4-8 years old, and then it stopped. I think that is normal, at least I was the same way. For me it was bad enough that I would avoid eating anything at all for a day before any long road-trip. My unsubstantiated hypothesis is that car-sickness stops being a major issue around the time that you grow large enough to effectively see out of the car. Buses are still unpleasant, though not vomit inducing, to me. That might be attributable to the poor visibility on buses (however I have no problem with planes at all...).
- btilly 13y agoDramamine works for me. Of course use of that is not conducive to performing any complex activities. I'm aware that motion sickness can change as people grow up. But given that I'm in my 40s, the odds of "growing out of it" are rather dim.
- rdl 13y agoFrom watching people on boats, transderm scop is less likely to cause tiredness than the oral antihistamines.