The Dreaded Motion Sickness

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Darkjuju

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I have Duned Trikes, Quads, Broncos, and golf carts for over 25 years and only once ever experienced motion sickness and it was last season which I chalked up to slamming a Gatorade on a pit stop and the sugar bugging me. That day I had to completely stop for 10+ minutes to keep from chuckin, took the damn sand highway home back to wash 15 from K12/Osborn, and had to sleep off the nausea for like 4/5 hours. I had another 4/5 trips last season not a single issue. This weekend right off the bat Thursday night, felt that sickness in the pit of my stomach headed back to camp and felt ok after sitting down for a bit. Friday am, ran my usual route from the washes up through the Brawley line into the valley past flag pole and swing set no problem, 1 beer 1 water on a 30 min pit stop. headed back through lizard over to Brawley and then it struck me, told my group i was leading to move on to camp and I lost my cookies shortly after. felt ok after i got back to camp had lunch ate some much needed vinegar and salt chips took a nap and then rode from 4ish till sunset and back to camp no problem. Later off to Dang Bros for a pizza and back that night also no issue. Then today we head out and mob the bowls between lizard and china, no problem, back to Brawley through the bowls to the washes and bam out of nowhere sick again. I pick a straight line to camp and nauseas the rest of the day, pack up and headed home (no way I was dealing with Glamis wash road after last year).

I just turned 50, 2 years ago it was my eyes having issues seeing the contours in the sand, now this, anyone else? Is this age or maybe just some sinus/allergy bullshit? I wouldn't say my life is the Dunes but, its been my drive force since I was young, I have watched my kids, family and friends grow up in the sand since I was in my 20s. If I can no longer dune, I am afraid of what my mental state may become, I know that's a bit dramatic but I recall my uncle who was big into flat bottom jet boat racing and ended up with Meniere's disease and couldn't even drive anymore, or be around loud motors etc. he was miserable. This was a dude that would wax his truck, trailer, and boat while chilling at the lake every weekend waiting for the glass of the evening to go run against anyone that wanted to line up.

 
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There are pills called Kwells on ebay, out of Austrailia... they are made by bayer...but only sold in outside the states... I swear by them...they are the same stuff as the patches, just in a  pill form. They used to sell them here as scopalamine until some dipshits started using it as a date rape drug in large quantities.... My wife swears by them. 

GO to the Dr and get checked out...lots of things can cause loss of equalibrium. 

 
If you wear earbuds a lot make sure to clean them and also clean out youre ears. Ive been getting car sick easier as i get older (43 now). Trying to figure out the cause. Besides getting older for me the biggest change in daily habits was how many hours per day i had an earbud in. It traps bacteria that could then effect the little hairs in your ear that tell you which side is up and which is down. When that signal in your ear doesnt match the gforces your body feels is when i think motion sickness develops. 

My second guess is a disruption in that signal. 

 
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what are you driving / riding? Windshields bug me.  Try different goggles if you use them? 

 
Thanks for the replies, I lead 95% of the time, I will check into Kwells, I dont wear earbuds much but headphones all the time, for the last 5 years a turbo LT YXZ (no windshield) and yes I drive it like a go cart at times :) 

 
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Sea fishing on a big enough boat and jackass cessna pilots would give me motion sickness that would last for hours. Dramamine didn't help at all. Then somebody told me to eat a jelly donut before doing whatever would give me motion sickness. I gotta say it works. 

 
I’m a believer in the patch now. I usually get sick in the back of cars, on boats, on planes, etc. Take the OTC stuff and it rarely works. For a recent Alaska fishing trip, I got a prescription for the patch and it worked. The seas were far from calm and I didn’t have one issue on the boat. I’ll be using them from now on. 

 
For 5 years the vehicle is exactly the same? No change in seatbelt or helmet?

Tossing out random ideas i notice i get motion sickness when i turn my head to look sideways at the same time the vehicle makes a change in direction. My brain is expecting to go straight, when the little equilibrium hairs sense a change. I think that is what causes the sick feeling.

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Seeing the new posts. Wonder whats in the patch. They must know what causes the nausea. 

 
Also is it possible you are looking around more side to side? You might trigger the motion sickness with the simplest of head movement. Timing is everything. Just turning your head a fraction of a second different might trigger the nausea. Imagine a guy with a jeep trying to crawl a stick shift up and down rocks. Being precise is easy when youre younger. I feel like just maintaining basic equilibrium becomes more of a struggle with age. 

 
This may sound crazy but look into resetting the crystals in your ear canals. My boss/good friend got dizziness/motion sickness for multiple days straight and finally went to the hospital and they said the crystals were in need of alignment and gave him some exercises/movements to help reset them. He’s made a 90% improvement. Just giving you a option. 

 
Sorry this happening to you, however you are fortunate that you are just now experiencing this.   I have had the dreaded motion sickness since I went from a quad to a cage, very consistently, would puke just about every ride.   Stay out of the dunes around high noon as this is the toughest time to see and makes your sickness worse.   I love the dunes and no way could I give them up.

I have tried dramamine, bonine, wrist bands and other OTCs and none have worked.    The only thing that works is the scopolamine patch.   I have been using the patch for about a decade now and have yet to get sick when it is on and effective.   It has an effective period of 3 days.   However, it doesn't come without side effects and for me the most annoying is extremely dry mouth.   I'm talking tounge stuck to the roof of your mouth when you wake up dryness.   

Ginger helps but wont stop it.   Keep your patches in something you always take to the dunes because if you forget it, you will be bitter and puking :)

 
Kwells is a Pill form of the Patch....

Hyoscine Hydrobromide 300mcg  |  Prevention of travel sickness  |  12 tablets | For adults and children over 10

The active substance in Kwells tablets is hyoscine hydrobromide. Hyoscine hydrobromide temporarily reduces the effect of movement on the balance organs of the inner ear and the nerves responsible for nausea.

Because Kwells tablets melt in the mouth, absorption into the bloodstream is very rapid and they can be taken up to 20–30 minutes before travelling or at the onset of sickness.

Scopolamine (hyoscine), an anticholinergic, is one of the most commonly used pharmacological agents for motion sickness. Other commonly used drugs include other anticholinergics (e.g. zamifenicin), antihistamines (e.g. meclozine, flunarizine), sympathomimetics and opioids

 
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I am familiar with this as my wife too has dealt with vertigo for about 10 years

 
Seeing as you're the leader and you don't get tunnel vision because you're always looking ahead, I would think that this is something medical and/or age related. I would go to the ear nose throat doctor. 

That being said, I'm with everybody else, the patch was the only thing that worked for me on fishing trips.

 
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