"Though an epidemiologist I have science chats with suggests that it's possible that they break their bone first and then fall because they break their bone."

I'm showing MY age on this; but, I remember Dr. Koop, the Surgeon general under Reagan, saying something along those same lines - he believed that older folks broke their hip and then fell.

Anyway, that's my trip down memory lane - hope you feel better!

Thanks -- wooziness seems gone today. And my Kaiser "primary care" doctor is making me come in to see her to get referrals to see other doctors. Bureaucracy, yawn.

Have you tried "Seabands"
http://www.amazon.com/Sea-Band-Adult-Wristband-Color-1-Pair/dp/B001F731N0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1423926550&sr=8-1&keywords=sea+bands
they use acupressure to suppress symptoms of sea sickness, I feel your pain, I once got seasick on HMS Belfast which is a museum ship docked on the Thames river (hint, she don't move much). Hope you feel better.

I'm sorry. You may be the only person with worse motion sickness than me. I've tried everything, Seabands, ginger capsules, etc., nothing makes much difference. Now I take Dramamine or Bonine if I'm going to be in a car and definitely if I'm flying. Just wish there were a better way. I hope you get some relief.

I'm sorry. You may be the only person with worse motion sickness than me. I've tried everything, Seabands, ginger capsules, etc., nothing makes much difference. Now I take Dramamine or Bonine if I'm going to be in a car and definitely if I'm flying. Just wish there were a better way. I hope you get some relief.

I neeever used to get motion sickness when I was in my 20's. I used to be a professional Athletic Entertainer in amusement parks, primarily used as a sprungboard diver. I'd bounce up and down on diving boards and do at best, 3 1/2 somersaults before opening up, at the right time from spinning super duper fast, and dive into the water. All the while my eyes were closed. I'd bounce trampoline all night long in class-zero motion sickness. I even hang glided, in circles, for 4 hours at a tiiime, and STILL never got motion sickness!

In my 30's I began to get motion sickness. If I switch from sitting on a long surfboard to a short, or vice versa, I'm nauseaus. The ride at Knott's Berry Farm that takes one straight up-sea sick.

I think there are little hairs broken off in my vestibular canal and that's the cause. Probably from loud sound.

Peggy Fleming quit ice skating cuz of motion sickness.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/rethinking-motion-sickness/

Interesting article about motion sickness.

One theory is that food toxins can cause dizziness and loss of balance. We evolved to vomit when we experience a mismatch between what we see and what we feel. Vomiting is a small price to pay to avoid dying, although usually not needed.

The above article suggests that small unexpected movements may trigger the same system.

This is for vertigo, which I'm not sure is the same as your motion sickness. During my severe spell 2-1/2 years ago I could not be in a car in any form or fashion and it took 6 months or more before I could be in one in reverse. Antivert (meclizine) was a lifesaver. I also tried the Epley maneuver. This did not work so good in the hands of the physical therapist who didn't know what she was doing, but I have encountered many people who did well with it. A lot of ER docs can do this, the trick is finding one who is experienced with it. They will roll you around over and over and over again, but it's well worth it, I'm told. Hope you find relief, and please let us know what works for you if you do. Nasty, nasty stuff.

My motion sickness was so predictable and specific that I finally have gotten a better handle on it.

If I get less than seven hours of sleep, don't have anything slightly carby in my stomach, and have to travel right away, I am in trouble.

I mean, really identifying it as an inner ear *thing * is so frustrating, because that isn't really very helpful in fixing the problem.

I have done a combination of things that seem to be making things gradually better.

One of those things is taking half a Buspar an hour before I have to either get in the car, or get on an airplane. (For me the car always proceeds the plane and it is a couple of hours drive.

I can't take the Buspar all the time because it gives me terrible indigestion, especially on a empty stomach.

For a while like 15 years ago I could fix it preemptively with Dramamine or Benedryl.

Then, that stopped working.

And once I started vomiting, often I couldn't stop. I started carrying a large paper cup with me at all times because it is embarrassing standing in the Seatac airport with your head stuck in the garbage can.

Then I started wondering if either the OTC drugs I was taking or someone I was eating or drinking on a regular basis was causing the problem?

I stopped taking some things, and eating and drinking some things, and added in some B12, and I think I am seeing some improvement.

Find a doctor who is willing to take an analytical approach and consider that maybe things your are ingesting, like coffee, dairy, Adderall, antihistamines, etc, may be exacerbating your motion sickness.

Regarding the Epley maneuver, I got to see it performed a couple weeks ago on a patient with benign paroxysmal vertigo in my clinical rotation for nurse practitioner school. It's remarkably simple, and while it doesn't work in all cases, for the ones where it does, it's a pretty impressive improvement. The patient walked in having to use the chair rail on the wall to keep balance and walked out 15 minutes later completely normally. The doctor said that in his experience, the cases where the first part of the maneuver (quickly lying flat) produced the worst nystagmus tended to be the ones that responded the best. Best of luck with your motion sickness, Amy.