I’ve suffered from seasickness since I was a child. I vividly remember getting sick in our old wood paneled station wagon in the jump seat in the trunk when I was a child and how that car was never the same. Since then I’ve been cursed.
Over 15 years ago, on a yacht race from Newport, CA to Ensenada, MX I was essentially incapacitated due to a rough ocean passage. On that passage I would stand watch on my back in the cockpit and off watch I would lay on my back in the cabin. For the entire ride I couldn’t sit up without being terribly sick. That memory of being incapacitated at sea, compounded by being the captain of my own vessel with crew that depend on me, feels really lousy and now that has all changed.
I can’t be more pleased to say that I’ve found a natural cure that works and I’ve been drug free so far this entire passage. In the past, I’ve taken Sturgeron with good success but found that rough passages were intolerable if I didn’t take it.
Now I wear this simple acupressure wrist band called Acustrap on both wrists and I’m now fine with rough weather. I can’t tell you how happy I am to be standing watch 11:00 – 3:00AM without that prenatal morning sickness pill raging through my veins that made me hungry and sleepy.
Life was good at sea, now it’s better.