Anyone else here get motion sickness? Is there such a thing as a better-tasting Dramamine?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

I swear that Dramamine is made purposefully nasty, almost to the point where it is unusable--in order to use it nowadays, I have to hide it in bread or something similarly "thick"-tasting first and then eat that food. Granted, I've never been great at taking pills, and a Dramamine pill is hardly monstrously large, but if I just swallow the thing down with water or juice or even soda, I then have to endure about twelve more sips afterwards to get that horrendous aftertaste out of my mouth. It works like a charm, and the non-drowsy 24-hour stuff generally doesn't require more than one pill per travel direction, but taking it is a pain in the ass.

I don't want my motion sickness medicine to taste like chocolate, but there must be some way to smooth out this process, or some alternative to Dramamine that works just as well and doesn't taste like rotten orange mingled with the essence of shit. Gahhh--just writing about this is causing my taste buds to give me "flashbacks" of that taste.

Is it just me? Anybody else have issues with taking Dramamine? Anybody else even NOTICE its nastiness?

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[MonkeyFunk]

1. I use Bonine

don't know if tastes better than dramamine - haven't tried dramamine in years.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear WIMR!

I agree with MonkeyFunk: Bonine is really good, and fast!

I don't remember the taste...

I took it one time after I was already seasick, and it still worked!

One thing: it makes me drowsy...

But the seasickness vanishes!

I asked my ear-nose-throat doctor, and he recommended this!

:hug:

[ThomCat]

3. I hate the taste of dramamine.

:puke:

One of the reasons I never got a drivers license, and moved to NYC where people don't depend on cars to get around, is because I have an aversion to cars because of a lifetime of getting motion sickeness. :(

I can be a passenger for short periods of time without a problem, especially from the front seat. But only if the driver is good. Anyone who lurches forward and back when they use the breaks, or anyone who swerves a lot is going to make me sick very quickly.

[pitohui]

8. that;'s interesting but i don't think you would get motion sickness if YOU were driving

one of my earliest memories of getting motion sickness is in a car, not a boat or a plane, and i have gotten motion sickness semi-regularly in a car on swerving mountain roads when someone else is driving, been motion sickness in a vehicle as recently as two months ago when someone else was at the wheel....HOWEVER...

never had it happen when i myself am driving though and i'm getting pretty up there in years so i don't expect it to


it wouldn't hurt to take a driving class and see how it works for you, being able to drive is incredible freedom, esp. in the usa where if you can't drive you are so limited in where you can go safely (well, esp. i would be limited, as i'm a woman and would basically not be able to go anywhere at night or early morning before sunrise)

[petronius]

4. I'll cast a third for bonine - I don't know if it tastes better but the pills are small (nt)

[Crabby Appleton]

5. Another vote for Bonine nt

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. Guess your life just sucks

:P

[pitohui]

7. the taste is bad but my motion sickness is worse

maybe you should brace yourself before you read any further about my dramamine habits -- ok here it is -- hold on -- if i need relief in a hurry then i melt the dramamine pill under my tongue and, yeah, it does taste terrible, but my problem is severe enough that i couldn't give a care how it tastes and for me this usually takes care of the problem very quickly

if you find a better, faster acting solution then PM me and i'll be eternally in your debt

a bit busy for the foreseeable and i'm afraid i'll lose this thread

i get motion sick at unpredictable times and thus don't want to be taking a pill every time i "might" get motion sick, so i wait until there's a problem and that's why i then need a fast working agent

by the way, my motion sickness pills AREN'T monstrously large, maybe i have switched over to the bonines and never noticed, my current package of pills is in french packaging and is called something like nautamine -- just assumed dramamine and this pill are the same, it tastes and works the same

[Lydia Leftcoast]

9. Cola drinks, the kinds with sugar, and especially Royal Crown

No, really.

I don't get motion sickness much, but when I was a kid, cola drinks were the key to keeping from upchucking.

[pitohui]

11. i use the cola drinks a little differently (but again my problem is severe)

i don't normally drink cola (or any soda) but when i am already vomiting then i do drink some

it might be on the pedialyte principle of replacing sugar/salt lost by the vomiting but when i was a kid maybe we didn't know about (or have pedialyte or gatorade) so we used coca cola

if i am pre-puke, i will try the dramamine first, if i do puke, then dramamine plus cola does usually fix me up right, i have recovered in as little as an hour

it is not known the cause of my sensitivity to motion sickness, apparently some people are just more prone to it

[Jamastiene]

10. I take Eckerd Brand PM, now known as Rite Aid Brand PM

It does way way way better for me than Dramamine could ever hope to.

http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=153678&catid=42

[pitohui]

12. in theory that shouldn't work for motion sickness, that's acetaminophen

by the way, people who drink shouldn't take acetaminophen so that lets out a pretty large percentage of the population including myself

but there is no mechanism for this drug to treat motion sickness, it is a pain killer

this suggests to me that the cause of your particular motion sickness is related to some form of pain issues that creates the nausea, do you ever have migraines, i wonder? (many years ago my mom had nausea related to migraines, this was treated by an injection of some sort of pain killer and it worked splendidly)

i'm always curious about how different we all are on the inside

pain medicine does nothing for my motion sickness, a good coca cola (as mentioned by someone upstream) does more than that for me

most intriguing

[Jamastiene]

14. This is actually a pretty interesting topic to me too.

The medicine I mentioned also has diphenhydramine in it, which is a mild sleep ingredient. With that part of it being so mild, it tends to have more of a calming effect than a sleep inducing effect, at least for me. I do have pain issues with nausea and do have migraines too. That could be part of why it works for me.

I do understand where you are coming from on acetaminophen not being specifically for motion sickness, but this particular medicine does work for me, I think, because of the diphenhydramine in it.

My body/brain tends to be really really resistant to sleeping pills and sleep inducing medication. It tends to just calm me down and hardly ever makes me sleepy.

The odd thing is that I cannot handle stimulants at all. It makes me so jumpy and makes my heart race entirely too much. I would go so far as to say that any sort of stimulant is dangerous for me to take altogether. I am just naturally high strung or strung rather tightly, which makes stimulants really react badly with me.

Sleeping pills and sedatives, in general, though, do tend to just calm me a bit. I'm not sure there are drugs other than anesthesia that can knock me out or make me sleep. And even under anesthesia, I woke up during two separate surgeries; once when I was having a lump removed from my breast (halfway through the surgery no less) and once during gall bladder surgery (this time I made it 2/3 of the way through). Both times were terrifying to me too, because I could feel everything but just couldn't talk or say much.

[mduffy31]

15. Diphenhydramine

....better known as Benadryl

[Jamastiene]

21. Really?

I did not know that. Seriously, I didn't know. So, taking a Tylenol and some Benadryl would be the same thing if the dosages were the same?

[sir_captain]

22. Yep.

And they tend to be the same dose. 25mg of diphenhydramine in a tab of Benadryl or Tylenol PM.

It's just an anti-histamine that has the happy side-effect of making a large percentage of people sleepy.

[Zoigal]

13. There are patches that can be placed behind the ear...

Check with your MD for an Rx. Haven't used it though. z

[Arger68]

16. You could try ginger. I don't get motion sickness but have

heard that ginger can treat it.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2119562_use-ginger-treat-motion-sickness.html?ref=fuel

[BrotherBuzz]

19. I consume a box of Ginger snaps and a liter of coffee on race day

My skipper uses those glue-on things behind the ears and on the wrists, and eats bananas. I always feel queasy a few hours into a race when he starts chumming the waters, or as they say on dry land, "driving the porcelain bus". He says he likes to eat bananas because the taste the same going down as coming up. Everyone gets some degree of seasickness; lucky people like myself just feel a little punk for an hour or so three hours into a long race then get over it. I always dread reefing, changing headsails, or flying the chute during that period because I'm not performing at my peak and worry about making mistakes, and mistakes at sea means injuries and equipment failure will occur.

[Rosemary2205]

17. I use a bracelet -- no really. It's not a joke.

I can't take dramamine or any of the other motion sickness pills on the market. I can't take anti-nausea meds either. Some anethesiologist put a plastic bracelet on both my wrists during one of my surgeries - I didn't even know it was there. In recovery I didn't even feel sick for the first time. I thought they found an anesthetic that worked better for me -- turned out it was that bracelet. I have awful motion sickness since the car accident and more or less live in those bracelets now. I had jeweler finagle a lump inside decent looking bracelets and on the inside of my watchband to mimic the pressure point therapy of the original plastic ones.

I initially poo pooed the whole thing as snake oil but it works so well -- and no chemicals in my system.

[BuddhaGirl]

18. I use Hyland's Motion Sickness remedy

it's homeopathic and works great!

[sir_captain]

20. ask your doc

for 12.5 mg tabs of meclizine--that's what non-drowsy dramamine is (or bonine, for that matter), but the prescription tabs are smaller, so you might not mind the taste as much. plus it'll be a lot cheaper if you have a good prescription plan.