Best meds for adult travel sickness?

[ProbableDoris]

I seem to have developed travel sickness (mostly cars, but also boats and trains) since I turned 40. Yet another wonderful perimenopause symptom perhaps? Anyway, I have booked a trip later this year which I’ve just found out includes travel by minibus each day. Only short journeys but on twisty roads and the thought itself is making me nauseous.

Does anyone else get travel sickness, particularly in cars, and do you take anything? Any recommendations?

Avomine is very good - but it does make you sleepy which is a disadvantage.

Kwells always helped me 🙂

Kwells seem to work and you can also get a pressure bracelet to wear at the same time. The trick is to take the tablet the first moment you feel sick. If it's really bad, as a last resort, get below the window.

I use Sturgeron- also makes you sleepy but I think that helps 😁 don't drive obviously!
I've suffered all my life and used to swear by Dramamine but you can't buy it in the UK now so I stock up when I'm in the US but I find Sturgeron does the job quite well

Dramamine doesn't work at all for me as I found out on a disastrous boat trip.

I use the Boots Travel Calm tablets which are the same drug as Kwells but cheaper.

www.boots.com/boots-travel-calm-12-tablets-10032951

Kwells or stugeron. Keep your eyes on the horizon. I saw some travel sickness glasses the other day which looked cool / but haven't tried

Thanks all, I’ll try Kwells/Boots Travel Calm with pressure bands as backup. I’ll also ask in advance if I can sit up front with the driver!

i use sturgeon. Start taking it daily about a week before you holiday and take it every day. You will find it will make you less sleepy this way. I suffer with dreadful travel sickness.

Also Amazon. Do stickers that go on you stomach. I have a sickness caused by stomach problems. Before I got a prescription from GP which I take daily, I I used these. They are really cheap and I sound they really helped with the nausea.

Stugeron and sea bands. I get seasick and I managed sailing to Antarctica on this combination many many years ago!

My GP recommended Sturgeon as being the best, with the least side effects..

I like Sturgeon with sea bands. Try not to read/look at your phone or other devices and sip water.

Kwells is the only thing that ever works for me, have been in cars, planes, trains and boats in the last few years and felt absolutely fine, and I'm generally not a great traveller. For me, it also helps to eat little and often, and carby things like biscuits, crisps, flapjacks/oat type bars, and avoid coffee and fizzy drinks.

Buccastem (prochlorperazine). It's used for migraine nausea/vomiting if you buy it over the counter but the NHS does also list it as being used for travel sickness. I had it prescribed during pregnancy.

Like most of them, it does cause drowsiness.

Kwells work for me, though I seem to be in the small percentage of people they make drowsy so can’t take them if driving. This is rarely a problem as something about driving seems to stop me getting travel sick, but wasn't great when going to the aisle of Wight.

Thank everyone. I’m fine if it’s me driving, and usually fine as the front seat passenger. I suspect there’s an element of anxiety to it too - once I’d felt sick once, I got anxious that I’d feel sick again in the future, and so it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It also depends on the driving style - some people seem to jerk the car around corners and it can feel like a rollercoaster. A crappy kids’ one, that is 😁

Scopoderm patches have been life changing for me.

I'm sick on anything that moves. Kwells and Sturgeon stop me being sick but don't stop me feeling rough.

The patches have been a total game changer. Last 72 hours, I can sit and read a book in a car whereas previously I couldn't even glance at my phone.

They're expensive- £25 for 2 patches- but worth every penny. Thankful forever for the GP who told me about them (said not allowed to prescribe but told me to source from the online pharmacies)