Autocross nausea

I get it if too many runs to close together. Forgot to take ginger before I left this morning. Anyone else suffer from this? How do you handle it. Add to this low blood iron, heart rate, and blood pressure.
I have another event tomorrow. I missed out on 5 additional runs today and would like to get all 10 in tomorrow.

Man, I will never know what you are going through. I absolutely love G's. My body is built for it. My sympathy to you.

Anchor yourself to the seat better so you're not flopping around and/or holding yourself in place with rarely used abs. Lock the stock belt or add an auxiliary one just for ax runs.

Take half a Benadryl allergy pill. Diphenhydramine is a mild anti nausea which I discovered by accident when realizing that the days my nose was runny in the morning, instructing didn't make me want to barf

I recommend you don't take up sailboat racing.

In reply to RedGT:

I drive a former ITB Rabbit. Kirkey seat and 6 point harness. Not much flopping around going on.

Benadryl huh?

Stare at the horizon between runs. I've never had issues with cars, autocross, on track or on stage (driving or silly seat). But on the water with winds above 20mph and seas above 12ft, I'm chumming.

I've had that problem as a passenger, but never as a driver.

It just happened to me two weeks ago. First time I've ever had it as a driver. Mind you, this was my first autocross in 4 years. As I've gotten older I've become more susceptible to motion sickness. When I was in my teens and twenties I was a roller coaster fiend, I couldn't get enough of them. But these days I'm retching after the first big hill.

It sucks.

Scopalmine.

Tell the doc you are going on a cruise, and you get motion sickness. They'll give you that stuff in patch form. It's not expensive and 1 patch lasts 3 days.

Pretty sure Stage Rally runs on this stuff...

vwcorvette wrote: In reply to RedGT: I drive a former ITB Rabbit. Kirkey seat and 6 point harness. Not much flopping around going on. Benadryl huh?

Whatever you do, don't have a beer with the guys after the event while the half-a-dryl is still in effect. Alcohol seriously amplifies the drowsy effect of benadryl.

For me, the trick is to stay cool and hydrated, but not too hydrated. If my own body overheats, my tolerance levels go way down (and the driving will suck even more than usual). If I don't drink enough fluids -- same thing.

The most tricky bit for me though is to not overdo the re-hydration part. If it is water that I drink too much, my tolerance levels go way down. If it is too much juice that I drink, the sugar gets to me, and all the motions feel over amplified, making it easy to get nauseated from the motions (not to mention the jittery sugar high). If it is too much Gatorade that I drink, I feel bloated and sick even before the motion sickness sets in.

Gosh... this bag of skin and bones that I am stuck in... It totally wasn't this useless 20 years ago.

I spend hours at a time drilling holes in the sky. Imagine being in a 60 degree bank turning as tight a circle as possible and holding that position for 20 or so revolutions while climbing a thermal.

I'm a little more used to it, but not enough.

Dan

So did you try anything? Or did you barf in a Rabbit?

Our club puts on a number of rallies - one of the most active participants says he can't begin to navigate without these.

Traum wrote: For me, the trick is to stay cool and hydrated, but not too hydrated. If my own body overheats, my tolerance levels go way down (and the driving will suck even more than usual). If I don't drink enough fluids -- same thing. The most tricky bit for me though is to not overdo the re-hydration part. If it is water that I drink too much, my tolerance levels go way down. If it is too much juice that I drink, the sugar gets to me, and all the motions feel over amplified, making it easy to get nauseated from the motions (not to mention the jittery sugar high). If it is too much Gatorade that I drink, I feel bloated and sick even before the motion sickness sets in. Gosh... this bag of skin and bones that I am stuck in... It totally wasn't this useless 20 years ago.

Can't emphasize this enough. Being hydrated solves this 100% for me (and dehydration will cause it Everytime). Also agree that juice and or Gatorade usually make me feel awful.

For $5 try some of the essential oil drops called "Motion Eaze." You can find it at most drug stores, Walmart, etc. My wife started feeling sea-sick and this is what the friendly cruise ship lady recommended over all others- and it worked, like, immediately. I thought "snake oil" myself but it worked took care of her for the rest of the cruise.

Duke wrote: Our club puts on a number of rallies - one of the most active participants says he can't begin to navigate without these.

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I can get seasick or motion-sick as a passenger, but I don't when I'm driving the vehicle and always looking where it's going. I think the disconnect between where you're looking and where you're going is what causes it.

I have a worse problem, I feel nauseous whenever I'm not driving racecars.