Nutek

Kebab.

markwm

Indeed I am though have not lived in Edgware for many a long year.

Yorkieabroad

Wife found out on our honeymoon that she got airsick...we were doing short 30 minute hops on little Cessnas between different safari camps in southern africa, and she was sick on every single one. Got to the point that the pilot was giving her a couple of sick bags before she even got on the plane. Most flights it was just the 2 of us and the pilot, but on our penultimate flight we had another passenger, an english lady who worked at one of the camps. When she heard about my wifes troubles, she admitted she used to have the same problem, then she gave her an apple to eat on take off - it was the only flight she wasn't sick on. Tried it again on the last flight - same result. Don't know why, but it worked for the 2 of them.

Speedwell

Shhhh... I think it's less the apple than the belief that the apple helps. I taught one of my bosses a simple trick when I happened to share a flight with him and he had forgotten his Dramamine.

When you begin to believe you are feeling airsick, rub the back of your left hand with your right ten times in a gentle circle, then the back of your right hand with your left ten times in a gentle circle, then do each one nine, eight, seven... all the way down to once per side. You should feel the sickness subside and be gone by the time you finish. If there is any remaining sickness, identify its intensity on a scale of ten to one (for instance, it's about a "four") and rub backwards from that number down to one. If there's still any remaining sickness, again find its level ("it's a three") and work down to one.

This actually worked and he went around teaching it to people, for whom it worked. I was shocked. I honestly made it up out of pure desperation just to distract him from his worry. Maybe it works by a sort of self-hypnosis.

Yorkieabroad

But at least you've now made sure it won't work for anyone else who tries it.....

Uncle_Bob

Have you tried Airborn

Speedwell

Nothing I can say is going to shake the belief of someone who believes in it.

Mummy in the foothills

I get travel sick too.
I didn't do too bad on the last couple of flights, I held off on drinking anything but water till the end of the flights then had two cups of tea. But I eat (a lot) I eat my meal and usually part of Dd's I pack snacks, things like goldfish crackers, granola bars, dry stuff. If the plane served crisps I'd crunch my way though the flight. Then need to loose a few pounds on arrival.
Has anyone tried Seabands?

Yorkieabroad

Guy we used to sail with swore by them until someone showed him an article that basically said they were a placebo and had no biological effect. He gave up on them and gradually"taught" himself not to be seasick...he always was a little bit at the start of a trip, but the period gradually reduced. Wife uses them when we go on a cruise () and she's not sick...but then we've never been in any weather that gets remotely close to testing the stabilizers, so that doesn't really say much. She is a fan of acupuncture and acupressure though so it's no surprise she likes the sea bands.

tonrob

I did say

Lion in Winter

You lot are really complicated.

Just take the drugs people. One tiny pill. A better life through chemistry.

Speedwell

The pill in question is a nervous system depressant and an antihistamine and also fights with another drug I take. You have to be careful about that stuff

Lion in Winter

So you mean I shouldn't go on taking it with wine and benadryl?

scrubbedexpat097

No the cooking sherry would probably work better

Lion in Winter

Good point. Have to plan ahead though - for some reason you can't get cooking sherry in the duty free.