Anything new in to combat motion sickness?

Gary Emerson wrote:
Greetings,

I typically suffer from motion sickness early in the season and
sometimes on longer flights if the thermals are rough.

I have one of the electronic wrist devices. It's of some benefit, but
it's not an instant cure, at least for me.

Just curious if there are any new meds or other solutions that might be
in the works??

Gary

Thanks for all the great responses. Looks like there are a couple new
things for me to try.

On the cammelbak subject, I rinse mine thoroughly and hang it up to dry
after each flight and periodically put some bleach in it to kill of
anything that might be hanging around. Following the bleach I rinse it
4-5 times and then hang it up to dry out.

Gary

Try ebay for imitation bladders, store always in the freezer, I dont think I would bother drying the bladder before freezing, the bugs will still be there.

Anybody know of a decent, economical, NO LEAK hi flow valve for the damn things?? This part drives me berserk, they either leak or dont give you more than a sip at a time.

Back to topic, try being troubled by another condition.
I always feel crook if flying locally, and will meter myself a half pill or two as the hours go.
Cross country I seldom feel any ill health, I expect due to the higher mind load of navigating, calculating, seeing new ground etc.
The more I think about throwing up, the more chance I have of doing it.
Dont think about it!

bagger

bagmaker wrote:
Try ebay for imitation bladders, store always in the freezer, I dont
think I would bother drying the bladder before freezing, the bugs will
still be there.

Anybody know of a decent, economical, NO LEAK hi flow valve for the
damn things?? This part drives me berserk, they either leak or dont
give you more than a sip at a time.

Camelback makes straight and 90 deg shut-off valves that plug into the
hose just up stream of the bite valve.



Shawn

[To clean the tube of my camelback I disconnect it & run a "pull-through"(for cleaning rifle barrels in the field) through it. Amazing what comes out.

Like others, I often get airsick on early season flights around the
airport. I don't get sick later in the season and have never been
sick on a cross country flight.

Obviously, there is a powerful psychological component to
airsickness. Why else would so many of us successfully
acclimate to it, and why else would we not get sick on
cross country flights, where we know we don't have the
option of landing?

I once read, can't remember where, that the Royal
Air Force did a study of counseling as a way to combat it,
and apparently it worked!

Mostly I now just fly and don't worry about it and don't get
sick, but when I experimented with drugs, I had good success
with meclizine, a cheap, over the counter remedy. It tended
to make me sleepy so I tried taking it the night before and
getting a good night's sleep. The drug is supposed to work
for 24 hours, so this seemed to work for me.

Alan

Alan Meyer wrote: Like others, I often get airsick on early season
flights around the
airport. I don't get sick later in the season and have never been
sick on a cross country flight.

Obviously, there is a powerful psychological component to
airsickness. Why else would so many of us successfully
acclimate to it, and why else would we not get sick on
cross country flights, where we know we don't have the
option of landing?

I think that, too!

One times I flew as passenger and I was getting a little dizzy in my
stomach. So we decided to land. In the same second as our gear touched
ground the dizzy feeling changed to real sickness. After leaving the
glider immediately I had to sit down and ten seconds later I had to puke.

Thats why I think its psychological in many cases. I never had a real
sickness feeling during flight and I'm not anxious for it.

Andreas