Broomstick’s list is excellent.
I wanted to add that I have, in the past, taken sleeping pills, Benadryl, or the like–in combination with red-eye flights I usually manage to sleep through most of the flight, which keeps me from getting airsick.
Good luck!
Thanks everyone for the advice - very much appreciated. If I visit the US in a few months time, and live to tell about it, I’ll let you know how successful your advice was. 
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What I’ve been meaning to ask, and what Broomstick touched on, is it possible that your horrible experience was due to a bug, and not motion sickness at all? It’s been many years since I’ve experienced motion sickness, but I don’t recall on-going ,violent hurling. For me at least, I found that of after the initial expulsion, the symptoms abated somewhat.
Although I’d be concerned even if it was “just” a bug - with a first experience like that there may be such a strong association set up between air travel and puking that it would be wise to err on the side of caution until a few better experiences replace that first, awful experience.
That level of airsickness is unusual… but as I said, I once flew to Europe seated near someone who puked for eleven hours. We were expecting to see internal organs lying on the floor. To get her back home to the States some of her buddies dosed her into unconciousness, but there are inherent risks in amateurs doing that sort of thing. If someone must use drugs I’d really, really prefer they go to a doctor for advice.
I think you mean Bonine (=meclizine=Antivert, Dramamine II, Marezine); it works really well for me (I get motion sick in a hammock, no joke) but it doesn’t make you sleepy. If you want to sleep (as I choose to on flights), Dramamine is better.
Just don’t get confused and treat a regular Dramamine like a chewable one. :eek: Not only did it taste awful but my tongue went numb!! (What must it do to your stomach…)
I don’t think it was a bug, as I’ve been air sick on more than one occasion. So if it has been due to a bug, the odds would be astronomical.
On the other hand, I have had flights where I’ve been fine for the entire flight, so who knows. Maybe it’s just up to how much turbulence the flight encounters. I also do not get car sick or experience any other type of motion sickness, so I’m not quite sure what the deal is.
I always thought it was the phosphoric acid in Coke that helps with nausea. I’m not sure though.
The OP describes my flight from Canada to England when I was 12 – and the ride back! I used to get motion sickness a lot, but after my teen years I grew out of it, except on very turbulent flights (and now I just feel queasy at times, and haven’t puked).
Go ahead and arm yourself with broomstick’s remedies (She’s a pilot!), but remember that ginger ale and ginger candies don’t usually contain any real ginger (which is supposedly the anti-nausea medicament of choice).
But if you’ve been on flights since, and never have problems when being driven around in the back seat of a car, you’ll probably be fine. Just don’t read the in-flight magazine during takeoff or when the plane’s bumping through air pockets, keep the air vent on high, and stare into the distance if things get rough.
I don’t know about that – you can buy “cola syrup” over the counter as an anti-nausea treatment, which suggests that there’s something about cola itself that settles the stomach. Or, at least people think there is.
Don’t discount the placebo effect - it can work! In fact, they proved that on Mythbusters on their motion-sickness remedy episode.