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I'm in my 30s. I have NEVER been carsick (or bus sick) in my entire life. Then, in about 2010, I went on 2 lengthy bus rides that year & I got sick riding on both. I even threw up a couple times on the 2nd bus drive & probably minutes away from throwing up on the 1st...good thing I happened to obtain a plastic bag! I'm wary of riding a bus again now.
Just so you know, regarding sea sickness, I do not get sick from those big cruise ships & was last on a smaller boat in 2009, but didn't get sick.
Would anyone happen to know why the bus sickness happened & why at this point in my life? Any info you can give would be apprecated. Also, what ALL-NATURAL vitamin, etc. is good for motion sickness?
Car sickness is usually the result of movement + eye-movement + (hunger OR actively digesting a full stomach's worth of food), with an inner ear problem and/or hearing impairment as bonus points.
I used to get car sick, and I don't anymore. Everyone is different with it. What's usually helpful is to:
1. Look OUT the window when you're in a car. Do NOT try to read a book, or a map, or watch the driver, or watch the passenger, or anything else. Try to look ahead if possible, to the side if not, but always look outside the car at what's coming as the car moves forward.
2. Don't travel on a completely empty stomach, and don't travel when you're overstuffed.
3. Get your hearing tested by a doctor (not by a hearing-aid salesman).
The most natural, uninvasive, non-ingestible preventative, if you choose not to follow the above OR if the above isn't helping, is accupressure. You can get little bumpy tape things that go right behind your ear, or wear a funky wrist band that has a bumpy thing that presses against your pulse point. Either will work.
No, I never liked sitting too far in the back. The few times I'm on a bus I'm towards the front or at least midway.
I can see how ginger may help. It seems to have numerous health benefits.
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