The Motion Sickness Thread! 🤢

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That’s rough about GotG! That’s one ride I have thankfully never gotten motion sickness on.

I haven’t tried Allclair but if anyone has / does, report back and let us know how it works!

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This is the wrong approach. You need to look in the direction you are moving, not in the direction you are facing, to help minimize motion sickness on GOTG. Not saying it will eliminate it, but I can ride it now once I learned this with minimal nausea. Looking at the head in front of you actually can make nausea worse, not better, because your body is moving in ways that don’t correlate with your body.

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Thank you - will try that next time!

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Agree with this. I’ve had motion sickness since I was a kid, and had a long episode of non-spinning dizziness (diagnosis: PPPD) that started about 7 months before my last WDW trip. Basically, the doctor said that my desk job with long commute keeps my head/neck in one position most of the day, and my brain decided it’s too dangerous/scary to move.

My doctor ordered PT which I attended several mornings a week, and I did additional balance, vestibular and vision exercises daily. I was very motivated because I had a trip to WDW planned and didn’t want to miss all the new attractions. (YouTube is a surprisingly good source for PT exercise videos.)

After I finished PT, I continued with the daily exercises to continue to built tolerance, then started using an older set of VR goggles I borrowed from a friend to watch YouTube videos of attractions—which was challenging at first. I got to the point where I could “experience” Slinky Dog Dash and BTM (in VR) without nausea or dizziness.

I was still choosy about what I wanted to experience—and took Bonine. We rode Tron, SDMT, SDD, TBA, ROTR, MAMRR, FOP, TSM and Smuggler’s Run without a problem. After GOTG, I was toast (somewhat nauseated and dizzy—needed a Sprite and to sit for a bit afterwards) but it didn’t wipe me out for a full day or the bulk of the vacation, which was my worry. And I got to enjoy rides that previously made me queasy beyond measure. (We did not do Space Mountain, Everest, Tower of Terror or R&RRC, because I’ve never attempted any of those for a lot of reasons. The new Test Track was closed for part of the day of our visit and we didn’t think the line wasn’t worth it.)

Too much info - but thought you might be interested to know that vestibular PT exercises may help a lot with motion-induced nausea and dizziness, if started small and done consistently. (This is essentially an exposure therapy protocol to train the brain to stop flipping the fuck out. )

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On Guardians I always wait for the front row because that way you can see where you’re going for most of the ride (except for the backwards part at the beginning).I just turn my head so I’m always facing the track. I also take gingko biloba plus meclizine.

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I’ve “tested” and discovered that the wrist bands do not work for me while sailing in rough seas; I’ll save you the gory details. That doesn’t mean I won’t test it on a Disney ride as opposed to the sea/sailing to see if it works on land…. Can anyone speak to that at all? Anyone w/ different results at sea verse being on land riding motion rides?

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Studies have shown sea bands don’t work any better than a placebo. Now, there are things called relief bands, which have some kind of vibration aspect added which MAY offer some help. I haven’t seen studies on that for motion sickness. I have seen that they have been shown to help in medical situations, so perhaps.

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interesting….. there were oodles of retired Navy on our trans-Atlantic cruise, and they told us that the US Navy issues the bands to all service members going on any water vessel :zany_face:

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Never discount the benefit of a good placebo effect. There’s no harm in trying them. They’ll work or they won’t.

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Correct. The placebo effect is real. But if it didn’t work on the ocean as a placebo, then probably won’t on land with rides. To me, (half of a) Meclizine is what I use which works. BUT, you can create a “placebo effect” with other mechanisms. Distraction techniques, or making sure you are looking the direction you are going can help (although not terribly helpful on simulator rides).

On rides like Star Tours, it didn’t use to bother me, but more and more it does…so taking frequent moments to look around the cabin versus the screen in front can help a LITTLE, but even then, you don’t have a good frame of reference of movement to reality.

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I don’t really know if or how much they worked. I know I wore one as we sailed from Greece to France, that took almost a month, and I was sick twice, but those were REALLY BIG waves/swells/rough seas. I think they might have helped some, because I didn’t get as sick as early as I would before, but there’s no way for me to know for sure.

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I thought about taking them off to see what would happen but didn’t because being sick is terrible enough :rofl:

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