# Motion sickness poll **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 4, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motion-sickness-poll/598573 "2011-10-04T16:48:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motion-sickness-poll/598573/41 "2011-10-04T23:58:33Z")
Nope. I’m terrified of roller coasters but the few times I’ve been on one it didn’t make me nauseous. ---
**Author:** ![Dahnlor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahnlor/32/533_2.png) [@Dahnlor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahnlor)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motion-sickness-poll/598573/42 "2011-10-05T01:14:06Z")
Once, when I was 12, I was riding a Trailways bus, and the driver was driving like a maniac through mountain roads. I vomited all over his bus. It took me all day to get over it, too. I vomited again at the bus station, and then again on the Greyhound bus as it departed. I’ve been on all sorts of planes, trains and automobiles since then, as well as a few boats, and never got motion sickness again. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motion-sickness-poll/598573/43 "2011-10-05T01:59:16Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Yup, except for me only if I read in a _car_. I can usually read on buses just fine. Go figure. Cannot read in cars OR busses, can read on trains. I also get carsick if someone continually slows down and speeds up with heavy braking. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motion-sickness-poll/598573/44 "2011-10-05T02:25:28Z")
Another person who’s okay as long as I don’t read. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motion-sickness-poll/598573/45 "2011-10-05T08:34:31Z")
This “motion sickness” you talk about, what is it? ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motion-sickness-poll/598573/46 "2011-10-05T10:31:27Z")
Only time I ever yacked on transport was being brought home from the hospital in a piper cub at the age of 3 days. Mom fed me and Dad hit a patch of turbulence. Yarp, resulting in an urgent need for a bigger plane to accomodate the new size of the family :dubious:😃 I grew up being flown in small planes, vacationing in a 39’ sailboat, assorted small craft and long car drives. On the sailboat, I am the one that very evilly offers the poor newbie a boiled bacon sandwich 😃 ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motion-sickness-poll/598573/47 "2011-10-05T10:35:53Z")
I get it from everything. Movies with shakey-cam, Imax movies, boats, winding car rides where I’m reading, first-person shooter games, all of it. Ginger seems to help, but doesn’t get rid of it completely. Without a whole heaping pile of ginger I can’t get ten minutes into an Imax movie without feeling like my eyeballs are getting the nerve endings scraped off, followed by wanting to vomit said eyeballs 10 minutes later. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motion-sickness-poll/598573/48 "2011-10-05T11:55:22Z")
Once, in a small plane over lake Michigan. There was a LOT of turbulence. I didn’t barf, but others did, and given the closed environment that wasn’t helping. It took a good two hours on the ground before I felt better. I also had to look away from “The Blair Witch Project” several times in order to restore equilibrium. Otherwise, I’ve done every amusement park ride there is with no problem. In general I have an iron stomach. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motion-sickness-poll/598573/49 "2011-10-05T13:47:38Z")
i used to real bad as a kid, but a four-month summer trip through Canada in the backseat of my grandparents’ thunderbird while hauling an airstream trailer literally burned it out of me. i don’t know if it was a crude version of ‘flooding,’ but whatever. it worked. i remain unaffected in ten-foot swells in a small dive boat while most of the rest of the group is busy yakking over the side. the only time i’ve ever run into trouble - which just resulted in mild nausea that ended the minute i got in the water - is because i drank a half-cup of black coffee before going out. i learned later that the oil in the coffee can trigger seasickness. virtual reality tho, now THAT could be interesting. i wonder how i’d tolerate it. ---
**Author:** ![Snnipe\_70E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@Snnipe\_70E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snnipe_70E)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motion-sickness-poll/598573/50 "2011-10-05T14:22:08Z")
1st time at sea, 13 days between SF and Hawaii, sick 12 days did not go anywhere with out my #10 can, only servived on night lunches. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motion-sickness-poll/598573/51 "2011-10-05T15:48:00Z")
On a ferry, and it wasn’t particularly bad, I just sat down and took things easy for some time. After a while my ears decided that it was ok for the world to wobble. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motion-sickness-poll/598573/52 "2011-10-05T15:59:03Z")
If I’m deep into a book while in the car I get motion sickness, which I take care of by closing my eyes and leaning my head back. It goes away after awhile, which just leaves the earache I get from the yelling and screaming of my passengers. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motion-sickness-poll/598573/53 "2011-10-05T17:24:32Z")
I cannot ride anything that spins in a circle. I WILL heave. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motion-sickness-poll/598573/54 "2011-10-05T17:26:57Z")
I experienced motion sickness for the first and only time last summer while on a boat bouncing through the waves in the south Pacific. It wzs quite choppy, and a number of passengers had taken to their bunks with dramamine. I was feeling quite fine and decided to lie down inside the cabin. Oops. Fortunately I made it outside to the barf bucket in time. Never happened before, or since. I attribute this to the fact that I simply have a very poor sense of balance. My eyes, inner ears and brain are used to things not being exactly in synch. Members of my family with an excellent sense of balance are the ones prone to motion sickness. My husband could not ride on a merry-go-round or the Disneyland teacups. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motion-sickness-poll/598573/55 "2011-10-05T17:27:20Z")
I have gotten sick on a boat before, but is has to be very bad chop. Ordinary boat movements won’t make me sick. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motion-sickness-poll/598573/56 "2011-10-05T20:48:31Z")
I got queasy riding the Octopus at the fair once, but I think that was sunstroke more than anything. And I think I can remember feeling a bit off one time when my family was driving through hilly country with a lot of ups and downs. But otherwise, no. I love to read in the car, for instance. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motion-sickness-poll/598573/57 "2011-10-05T22:36:18Z")
I get the dizzy queasies if I do the aerial zoom-in thing on Google Earth. I can watch I-Max and shakey cam movies and be on any kind of moving thing with no problem but the Google Earth really messes with my head. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2011, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motion-sickness-poll/598573/58 "2011-10-05T23:00:33Z")
Only on very rough seas. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motion-sickness-poll/598573/59 "2011-10-06T09:49:48Z")
I get car sick unless I’m riding in the front seat. When driving on winding roads, I have to be driving. I couldn’t tolerate my husband’s Cadillac aka the Magic Carpet ride. I’m sure I’d get sick on a helicopter, but have never forked over $200 for the pleasure of confirming that. I get mild vertigo on planes, but have never gotten nauseated even with severe turbulence. Actually, I prefer the bumpy turbulence as it helps me rest. I was sick for 3 days on a 7 day cruise after being convinced that there’d be NO WAY I’d get sick on a ship the size of the Norwegian. Turns out I could and did. No more cruises for me. The last time I actually vomited from motion sickness was on the night manta ray snorkel trip on Big Island. I’d never gotten sick on a Zodiac before because it’s all open, but when we stopped, the ocean swell made me sicker than a dog. Once we started moving again, I was fine. But that was pretty miserable. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motion-sickness-poll/598573/60 "2011-10-06T10:35:21Z")
Only on amusement-park rides that go upside-down, and just about to the point of passing out. I hate this, because I love these rides in theory, but can’t go on them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motion-sickness-poll/598573.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/motion-sickness-poll/598573.md?page=4)