I can't ride in the back seat of a car or enjoy a deep sea fishing trip without getting motion sick. Well, it turns out sitting in a tall cedar on a windy day has the same result.
During a hunt last season I felt so sick I had to climb down, and I had deer around me!!
Just wondering if anybody else has ever had a problem with what I call "Tree Sickness?"
Try Dramamine over the counter made for motion sickness. My Wife takes it every time before a long trip or flight.
It's worth a try.
That stuff will make you sleepy, don't fall!! :nono:
Use a pressure point or a ghilie suit.
I don't get sick I just like to keep my feet on the old Terra firma and the more firma the less terror.
Might try the dramamine wrist bands... The oral medicine makes me sleepy, but the wrist bands don't seem to bother me... probably worth testing on terra firma first though ;-)
Jonathan
Maybe find a different kind of tree. Cedars have a lot of bend.
Or set the stand a bit lower to get less motion. Set it lower until you find a sweet spot. test it out in the summer
I don't like taking anything that says don't drive or operate equiptment when you sit in a stand with a bow and a sharp broadhead. But if you do wear a good harness at least.
Boy that's a nasty problem
Good luck with that
Sam
Happens to me too. Try the non drousy dramamine. Take one before you leave the house on windy days. Works for me.
The non-drowsy Dramamine as well as Bonine work great but are expensive. Go to Walmart and get a bottle of Meclazine hydracloride, it's the generic Bonine and will run you about $5-6 for a bottle of 50. If you want to go deep sea fishing or any extended ocean trips get a prescription for the Scopalomine patch - goes behind your ear and works great. For just mild queesyness use raw ginger. Just bite off a 1/2" chunk of a root, chew and swallow. Works great for me.
I would practice all summer with a six pack in the stand. You should get the hang of it by October.
If you are going to try the pills, try them ahead of time - I get motion sick when I visit my in-laws in France (something about European driving, I think...) anyhow, the Dramamine is the berries for me, Bonine makes me see pink elephants and other stuff that ain't there. Wouldn't be good to dequiver your bow shooting at the pink elephants then have the big'un walk past!
R
Only had it happen once. On a very windy day, up a very small tree. Not too pleasant.
I'll second the comment on Bonine. It works as well if not better than Dramamine and it doesn't usually make you drowsy. I spent most of my life riding in the back seat of fighter planes with all kinds of yanking and banking and you get used to it. Every once in a while on a very windy day in the stand I can get a little vertigo. Try not to focus on the movement of the trees that are close to yours. I find that watching the trees will make it worse. The hairs in your inner ear that act like little accelerometers are telling your brain that you are pitching or yawing in one direction, but the visual cue from the nearby trees moving is telling you something else because they are moving at their own separate pace. Your brain then tries to process the actual motion that your inner ear knows to be true with what your eyes are telling your brain and you become disoriented. Don't focus on a single spot close by; instead look at something off in the distance.
Could be an inner ear condition or even a thyroid condition, at least that is what one person I know had that suffered from extreme motion sickness.
stick to the ground its alot safer and ya dont get sick. :biglaugh: