Pedalo seasickness! Mal de disembaquement

Sturgeron

Or as it sounds like you are in France… Le médicament pour le mal de mer

You’re not alone. When I was a kid, my Mom would get seasick on a Pedalo.

Vertigo? It's not what people think it is. Check out the symptoms.

It'll pass in a couple of days.

I get it if I've spent a few days aboard a boat. When I get back on land it feels like I'm still swaying on the boat.

Seems a bit extreme to get it after a couple of pedalo trips though....

Maybe the OP is Lance from detectorists?

I get it if I’ve spent a few days aboard a boat. When I get back on land it feels like I’m still swaying on the boat.

I always found the sensation funny. Trying not to fall off the quayside as you go from boat to the nearest pub.

Or as it sounds like you are in France… Le médicament pour le mal de mer

Obviously the usual caveat applies that if you go to a French pharmacy, there's a 90% chance whatever they give you will need to go straight up your arse.

I'm not in France. I was in Italy.

I looked it up and that was the common name that popped up (on Google, not my arse)

I get that loads, had it on a narrowboat, sea kayak, ferry etc.
Not had it on a sup or on whitewater though

Any solution?

Any solution?

Yeah,wait a couple of days

Yeah,wait a couple of days

Yup, this is what Mrs dB self prescribes after plane/boat/train trips 😀

That's the only thing that works for me - time.
The sleeper up to fort bill made me feel wobbly for about a week

Ménière's disease

IANAD

Industrial quantities of ginger should help.

I looked it up and that was the common name that popped up (on Google, not my arse)

I was just trying to make a joke about the French being obsessed with treating every ailment under the sun with suppositories.

Reminds me of a glass bottomed boat trip with Mrsdts and the kids, in Spain. I was not keen and a little hung over. Literally 5 mins into the “voyage” I was as pale as a sheet of A4 and I would have jumped off and swam if I didn’t think it would have caused widespread panic!

I was just trying to make a joke about the French being obsessed with treating every ailment under the sun with suppositories.

Sacre bleu!

There's a few manoeuvres that are supposed to help reset the inner ear. One involved lying down and getting vertical quite quickly which was recommended to my wife by the doctor. I can't remember the name of it but googling vertigo cure manoeuvres will get you there

Trying not to fall off the quayside as you go from boat to the nearest pub.

I struggle more in the other direction🤷‍♂️

I can relate to this. Had it 3 times with worse after a week sailing at cowes. Was diagnosed at mal d embarquement but specialist and in worse case lasted 3 months. Eventually settled and undertook various exercises to re calibrate eyes ear and brain. I know people laugh but nearly drove me nuts at the time. I now avoid a particular mix of being overtired, not sleeping and certain exposure to motion and no re occurrence . I believe long haul flights can also trigger so I have avoided. Hang in it will improve

Industrial quantities of ginger should help.

Up your arse?

I get that loads, had it on a narrowboat

Thats pretty extreme, especially considering theres no waves.

I mean, im a bit of a sickie, got the Order of the Toilet Seat, but on a canal ?? 😕

Up your arse?

It will certainly ginger him up. (A Georgian form of horse doping, stick ginger up the beast's rectum and see it run faster).

Thats pretty extreme, especially considering theres no waves

You'd be amazed. I get affected by the slight rock of people moving round a canal boat

Doesn't matter how much ginger or where you administer it. I tried it (orally I might add) before a boat fishing trip & all I could taste was ginger flavoured puke.
Mind you it was so rough even the skipper called it a day half way through.

I get like this after the first day of swimming in the sea on holiday, and it kind of lasts the whole time we are away. I actually find it quite pleasant, lying on the beach on a lounger but feeling you are in a hammock or still bobbing about in the waves. Helps me sleep.
Also had same thing after long-haul flights when I have been tired. Found that less relaxing. I'd never made any connection between the 2 until reading it above

I get that loads, had it on a narrowboat

Thats pretty extreme, especially considering theres no waves.

I lived on a houseboat on the Thames for a short while. I can remember having slightly wobbly legs a few times, after I'd made my way onto dry land. Nothing more than jelly legs, and amusing enough.

A friend would get it after we'd been drinking at a sailing ship which had been turned into a pub and bolted to the marina-side at home. That thing did not move, and was in a sheltered marina..

There’s a few manoeuvres that are supposed to help reset the inner ear.

That'll be things like the Barbeque Roll and the Epley manouvre, used to treat BPPV which is when your balance system gets a bit disturbed by calcium crystals in your inner ear.

With the rallying I never ever had a problem, 100mph along a forest road with trees close on each side, sideways, jumps, the lot, completely fine.
Then I sat in a car that I couldn’t see over the dashboard. Big mistake.
Was recommended Kwells after that which completely sort me out, but if I don’t take them I’m always car sick. Infuriating!!

Might just be getting old or something too, though.

That’ll be things like the Barbeque Roll and the Epley manouvre, used to treat BPPV which is when your balance system gets a bit disturbed by calcium crystals in your inner ear.

I remember a story about one of the round the world legs of some event or other, where people paid to complete a leg. 2 girls had their ears balanced surgically to cure them of motion sickness,

Another possible 'cure' is to plug up one ear with an ear defender bit of foam. This apparently helps, but I cant remember where i saw it or whether it really works.

Other cures have told of using a mirror to stare into the attune the eyesight, but again who knows for sure.

The navy approach is to grin and bear it, as you will eventually get used to the effect and stop puking everywhere. I was informed of this by an RN commander i used to sail with and by a friend who was also in the RN, but i expect you'd need to be at sea foro a length of time.

Lord Nelson was apparently a sickie, as was i believe Robin Knox Johnson. I read somewhere he'd spend a couple of days 'head over the side' but my mate Kev who sailed around the world in the Whitbread and for the navy only once i heard was puking everywhere for a couple of days, off the west coast of Ireland. He's obviously been out in horrendous conditions, so it can affect anyone.

There is no dishonour in being seasick apparently. It can affect anyone at any time and just part and parcel of being on a boat.

Industrial quantities of ginger should help

My aunt suffered to the point of needing hospitalisation after a ferry trip from Genoa once.
I used to send her ginger travel sickness tablets from Oz to her in France because she couldn’t get them there (not oral ones at least 🤣)
She said it was the only thing that worked.
She’s now taken up sailing and ocean rowing!