Outfits 7 years ago Overcoming Sea Sickness
Ever since I was a child, I feared boats. It wasn’t a fear for water; I consider myself a fish! But as soon as my foot would touch the dock I would feel the ground moving and my head spinning. Sea sickness and motion sickness is something I have battled my entire life. It used to be so bad that even dramamine wouldn’t do the trick. After entering college my fear for flying got so bad, mainly due to the fact that I would fall sick, that I enrolled in pilots license training. After 20 hours of solo lessons, I finally started to feel less sick as I learned how airplanes work and what all the bumps and shakes are in an airplane. Now I’ll only get sick if we’re stuck in a really bad storm or strong winds.
Then there was the battle of the boat. When I met my husband, whose family is really into sailing, I knew I’d have to overcome my fear. 6 months into our relationship he invited me on his family boat, Holo Kai {as seen in this post}. I was in tears as I rushed to my doctor asking if there was anything stronger and better than Dramamine. That was when he prescribed Transderm – game changer. Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t a trip of peaches and cream. I was exceptionally nervous, stressed and 100% anxious about feeling sick the entire time we were in Greece. It was a shame because I really was missing out on enjoying the beautiful experience. However in the end, it was the trip that beat me into submission.
Now I cannot get enough of the boat. It is seriously miracle medicine for me. I still get carsick and motion sickness in other settings, but if I know I’m going on a boat all I have to do is slap one of those patches on and I’m set to sail. As a former sea-sickness person, I know how frustrating it can be to not be able to experience things in life because of motion sickness holding you back, which is why I’m sharing my secret weapon.
On Sunday we set sail with a few friends on the boat. Every time I set foot on Holo Kai it makes me smile knowing not only how far the boat has traveled throughout the world, but how far I have come since my first trip on this very boat to Greece nearly 9 years ago.
Do you experience motion sickness? What is your trick to overcoming it?
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