Best travel/sea sickness tablet

[BlueBloodedBlue]

As I've got older, I'm increasingly suffering from travel sickness.
Any recommendations for non-drowsy tablets or are they all much of a muchness?

Kwells don’t make me drowsy

My DDs swear by Boots own brand. Both were unaffected on the Scilly ferry in bad weather when the rest of their group were 🤢

Stugeron. UK ones much lower dosage than the same product in Spain but till seemed fairly effective on my last trip across the Bay of Biscay.

Boots own brand are my favourite non drowsy. They are the same formulation as Kwells.

Phenergan if you want drowsy.

Second Stugeron.

Cyclizine but you might need a prescription - it seems to come and go from being available OTC. If not Stugeron is not a bad substitute (25mg).

Benefit of quells & the boots own ones is they are quick acting so you can take only if you start feeling unwell. Whereas sturgeron has to be taken 2 hrs in advance. Boots own are my faves

Stugeron. Saved me on a messy ferry trip to the Scillies, and recommended by my host there.

If you want SERIOUSLY effective travel sickness relief you can buy patches called Scopoderm patches. They can be got on private prescription, or they can be bought online but you go through a 'health check' questionnaire before it lets you buy them, to ensure you really want them for travel. Because they are only available privately, they are very expensive, about £34 for 2 patches or about £49 for 4, but each patch lasts up to 72 hours. Usually a patch is applied below the hairline, behind the ear.

These patches are used by scientists travelling to places such as Antarctica, where the ships must cross the notorious 'Drakes Passage' sea voyage, which is very, very rough most of the time. There isn't much else that can cope with such seasickness. Depends on how seasick you get!

The wording on the medication states: "The Scopoderm patch contains an active ingredient called 'hyoscine hydrobromide', which belongs to a group of medications named antimuscarinics. Hyoscine prevents motion sickness by interfering with the communication of particular nerve messages that would usually trigger vomiting and sickness".

Might be useful for someone to know this, perhaps....

I would of said Stugeron previously, but have just been on a quite choppy cruise and used Avomine - which I bought in Superdrug - Brilliant things I would now not use anything else

Avomine are excellent, and I also use stugeron. Kwells make me feel high/drunk, to the point where I find it hard to walk in a straight line, but don’t have the same affect on my dd.

JoyRide are the only tablets that work for my son.

Sturgeon here too

Stugeron that should say (bloody autocorrect)...

Boots own brand are great, my children and I take them.

Boots and joy rides have the active ingredient hyoscine which is what's in the patches mentioned above. I find they're very effective

Kwells is also hyoscine hydrobromide, like the above patches (although perhaps a lower dose). I do prefer Stugeron personally, but you need to remember to take 2 hours prior, unlike Kwells which is just 20 mins.

I got very nauseous with Kwells on an empty stomach.