I can attest after a career at sea, after the third da, seasickness may just changes intensity....but is not a cure....even if puked and zombied out for 3 days, if conditions are bad, they relapse.
Also staring at the horizon may fix things for a small percentage, but very small and then not forever if conditions are bad.
If there were simple cures that worked for everyone, the USCG and US NAVY, let alone all seafaring groups would have it down to a science, which they dont.
Bruce K has the only good remedy.
Yes. Exactly.
One thing I have meant to write about is what I thought was sea sickness: mostly nausea, feeling like crap, etc, turned out for me
not to be.
On my last passage, I had just finished making Christmas dinner when I got "sea sick". The week before, having replaced the hydraulic hose in the middle of the Atlantic, while taking a shower to wash all the ATF off of me, I became so "sea sick" I couldn't even dry myself off.
I rested on bed for 10 min; tried to get dressed and couldn't. i wanted to check the boat before going back to Ops normal, I couldn't. Had to tell Micah to do it.
After an hour, I was fine.
Now, I had been taking sea sick medicine 75% of the time or wearing the scopolamine patch.
After i arrived in Martinique, looking at my bad episodes of sea sickness, I realized, I was having a reaction to the stress. In other words, when I got stressed, adrenaline flooded my body and it was the body (para-sympathetic system) going back to normal which was causing my sickness.
So I decided I had a stress issue (Christmas dinner was stressful because Micah really cared about it, while I didn't, so I wanted to do a better job than normal).
Leaving Martinique for Panama, another 1600 nm of big seas, I decided to not take any medicine any more. I also started taking a shower in the morning and evening, no matter what, because I had realized that the shower calmed me down.
It worked, 2,500 miles later, I havent been "sea Sick" since Martinique.