Medication, would you believe your GP or Wikipedia?

[Rockbird]

I know it seems like a silly question...

I suffer from very bad seasickness and am going on a ship next week (not my idea!). Last time I spent about 2 hours of the 7 day crossing upright, the rest I was in my cabin throwing up, literally. It was horrible, miserable and I've been dreading the holiday.

So I went to my GP today and she prescribed prochlorperazine and said it should alleviate it. But I stupidly googled it and Wikipedia says it's ineffective for motion sickness.

I know it sounds daft but I was so happy today and had started to think I might be able to enjoy the holiday. Now I'm really fed up again and dreading it. She looked it up and chose it over another drug because it works with what causes the sickness rather than the other drug which simply stops you throwing up.

Is there any hope for me?

well, I think there are better on line sources of information for drugs than wikipedia. There are drugs lists on line.

I wouldn't assume the doctor couldn't possibly be wrong, far from it.

trust your doctor this time?

Wilkepedia isn't written by experts, anyone can write a page.
Your GP should know, you can also ask the pharmacist.

I don't mean to imply that I don't trust her, I absolutely do, she was fab with my PND etc. But when I googled one of the first results said ineffective and I zoned in on that. I know I'm being daft and I know wikipedia is questionable (God, even I edit it sometimes!) but, you know...

Thanks

Glad you've got that sorted (and proved once again wiki is entertainment rather than reliable information...)

Just had to ask - why are you going on holiday on a boat when you suffer so badly from seasickness?

And don't trust anything you read on Wikipedia. But you know that.

Hope you manage to enjoy it.