CAR SICKNESS!!!! YAYAYAYAYAY
To any and every soul who struggles with car sickness (or general motion sickness, my heart goes out to you. I know exactly how you feel:
So this is why I'm going to reach out to you with every little trick and tip I can think of!
0) Not drive at all
Hahahaha.
1) Looking Forward
K, this has a really funny (and sad) story to it. I've always struggled with car sickness, so when I was little my mom would tell us, "Look Forward." Now, what she meant was to look out the front window and watch the road. Watching when the turns are coming can help focus your mind and prepare your stomach for the turns and thus can lessen the sickness.
Ohhhhhh this is funny.
K, so being the brilliant children we were, we thought she meant look straight ahead. And because we were little, straight forward meant staring intensely at the backs of my parent's seats.
Sad, I know. So we'd always say, "Mom it's not working!" And she'd tell us to keep looking forward.
So after like, I don't know, a year or a few of my childhood, my mom finally said once, "Watch the road." She'd always said look forward, and one day she added the road to the equation, and it clicked. Waaaaiiiiitttt aaaa seeeeccccooonnnd. So we explained that we've always looked at the back's of the seat. And I think my mom did a facepalm, mentally if nothing else.
And we've never stared at the back's of seats again. And watching the road does really help.
2) Dramamine
This is a motion sickness medicine, and it's the bomb. I will still get car sick sometimes, but I can usually help the rest of it with my other tricks. They recommend you take it a half hour before your activity or just take it to treat motion sickness. Here's a link to it on Amazon, but you can also get it at Walmart I think. LINK TO AMAZON!
Make sure to get the non-drowsy kind. One time, I couldn't find non-drowsy, so I got the drowsy kind. And guess what. Like 6 hours later, I TANKED. Like, tanked, tanked. It was terrible. I couldn't think straight, I felt like trash, I was spacing out. I think my stomach was unhappy too, like I didn't want to eat.
But like I said, this is the bomb.
3) Hard Candy
Lemon hard Candy is the best. Lemonhead or Brach's are the best.
Pls. note the Brach's are super sour on the outside and turn really sweet so just be prepared if you can't handle sour.
But honestly any hard candy will really help. I like to use hard candy as a supplement to my Dramamine. A hard candy or two will usually do the trick if I'm already on Dramamine. Some other hard candy's I've used are:
-Jolly Ranchers
-Lifesavers
-Cavendish & Harvey Wild Berry Drops (Germany imported: AMAZON LINK)
4) Sea Bands
K, I understand this is weird. But it's a stretchy bracelet with a plastic ball that pushes on a nerve in your wrist and helps relieve motion sickness. Here's a picture:
So they're great and yeah: LINK TO SEABANDS!! (sea bands sea bands sea bands. . . Sea. Bands) (I was referencing Thor, Sea bass)
5) Motion Eaze
Motion is an essential oil that you dab in that soft spot behind your ears. Yup. I use this as a last resort if nothing else is working, but it has worked, I can't remember a time it didn't.
6) Singing
I know, it sounds silly. But it's a way to swing my mind into the absent mindset and distract me from what my stomach is feeling. And if the radio doesn't work because we're driving in the mountains, I bring a few cds that I keep in my car and basically sing to all the time. This time I brought:
-Journey's Greatest Hits live
-Bryan Adams: So Far So Good
-Top Gun Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
-Cars Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
397) Pretend Driving
K, I know this one really sounds silly. But hang with me. Use a neck pillow, a pillow pet, a mario cart wii wheel, or even just hold your hand up like you've got it on the wheel, and just, well. . . drive:) It gives your mind something to focus on and makes you feel like you have some control over your miserable existence.
And thus ends 397 ways to prevent/help car sickness!
K, one time, I was getting car sick, and when you're going to throw up, sometimes it kind of burns in your throat a bit, so as a little kid, the best way I could explain my problem to my mom was, "Mommy, my throat hurts." My mom told me to hang in there, but I kept complaining and my mom came and sat in the back with me. And yeah, I threw up all over her, myself, and the car. It was epic. I don't remember much. Just looking out the window and watching the car get cleaned.
So pls. share a car sickness story if you have one.
Happy 50th post to me yayayayayay
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