Less Drowsy Dramamine is the same medication as found in Bonine. Regular Dramamine will make you fall asleep standing up! Less Drowsy will make you feel sluggish if you aren’t active, but not nearly as bad as the regular stuff. I actually take a HALF of a Less Drowsy Dramamine, and it is enough to keep the motion sickness at bay without making me noticeably drowsy.
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Whatever pill you take, even if it’s ‘non’ or ‘less’ drowsy formula, I would take it the night before. I took Bonine a couple hours before my GotG ride and I was an absolute zombie the whole afternoon and evening.
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It depends on what causes the car sickness. I feel like that ride is so jerky/quick start and stop, bouncing around that it should make me car sick but there’s so much going on that my brain can’t decide which thing to get sick at so it’s effectively distracted. And then it’s over.
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Non drowsy shouldn’t make you drowsy at all. “Non” drowsy tend to just be Ginger.
But I just took half a pill (less drowsy type) in the morning, and I was fine. A full pill I definitely feel the drowsiness from.
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After consideration I’ve decided to treat motion sickness as feeling nauseated. Thus no rides at WDW induce nausea in me. I experience no nausea in cars, boats or planes. Soarin, orange Mission Space, Star Tours, Rock’n’Roller Coaster - even multiple times do not make me feel urpy.
Without my glasses to help with depth perception Soarin makes my head feel so off that I have difficulty walking. With my glasses, no problem. Caveat- I’ve only done the current Soarin once apparently. I know nothing of the distortion.
I don’t like the sensation of dropping - as a kid I’d much rather dive off the high dive than jump - so Flight of Passage, Tower of Terror and Splash Mtn don’t work for me. Drops on Pirates of the Caribbean, (gone) Primeval Whirl, Space Mtn and Big Thunder Mtn are short enough we’re thru them before they get awful. Expedition Everest is doable because there’s not an immediate drop after the climb, the one big drop curves (why this helps?) and the other drop is backwards which makes it no problem at all.
I don’t go on Dino because it’s too dark and noisy and mostly boring. Family says I should get the cataract operated on and then I’d like the ride just fine. 
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Yeah I took a full pill around maybe 9am and by 2 I was completely strung out. Like got to my hotel room around 4 and stayed in for the night.
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Yeah. Try a half pill next time. (I actually experimented with this at home first, which is how I settled on the half pill in the morning solution.)
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My sister - major motion sickness/nausea person also does half a pill.
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That’s a fun word. 
Funny you put this in that category, because the drops aren’t that deep. Maybe you should try it again? It might have been first timers nerves that got you. Incidentally I was motion sick the first time I rode FoP but it has been much better ever since now that I know what is coming. Maybe you’d have a similar experience with the dropping feeling.
I didn’t even think of adding cruises but I wonder if I should have added JC or the steamboat?
I am hoping to do a Disney cruise in the next few years and I’m worried I’ll be seasick and it will ruin the trip. Maybe I should try a shorter, cheaper cruise out of San Diego with just my wife first before hauling the whole family to Port Canaveral in two cabins.
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I actually have not been on FoP at all based on recommendations from family. Tho DH’s doctor says “just close your eyes” in the iffy places. DH likes to refer to it as the ride that doesn’t move. He gets a kick out of all that flying and swooping and you haven’t gone anywhere. 
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If it doesn’t ruin your day to try, I would give it a whirl! Each time I ride it it feels more tame. I think the first time is just a surprise, and maybe your family was reacting to that.
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May be. Interestingly they’re in discussion - endlessly it seems - as to whether I can tolerate Rise of the Resistance. They go back and forth on that.
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That’s pretty much spot on.
It is kind of like on Soarin’, where all movement is an up/down movement. There is no actual tilting sideways, despite feeling like you do because of the visuals. It is this disconnect between what you see and what you are actually experiencing which leads to motion sickness.
FOP pretty much doesn’t move at all!
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I think it’s worth a try as well. The “drop” is like the drop on Tower of Terror but only once and only 1/4th as high, if that. It’s just enough to give you that dropping sensation for half a second. Like cresting a single bunny hill on a roller coaster. The rest of the ride is extremely tame motion-wise.
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I think we have similar ride tolerances.
Take the whole family.
Cruising is da bomb. 
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Well the floor does float up and down with the flapping of the wings. But it’s not too much.
This video at the 10:00 mark (which I time stamped) shows how it works and then has a video taken from a GoPro set on the stationary shelf behind the riders. It’s probably 6-8 feet of vertical motion.
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That first drop is what the discussion is about. Because they know any drop on Pirates is fraught.
There’s no discussion about FoP. They just say stay off. Which is cool. I like hanging out in AK really early in the morning. Even in December when it’s 42 degrees. Hot chocolate is warm. 
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Hmm. It is the stop/start that gets her but it also takes a bit so hopefully it’s short enough. And as you said the distractions might keep her at bay too. She’s usually fine once out of the car too. It doesn’t linger too long.
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I am so excited to try one but my pocketbook will probably struggle once I get hooked. 
Boats on tracks which I think apply to all at WDW are fine. I do suggest a short cheap cruise to test out before you drop thousands on a Disney cruise.
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