Has anyone developed motion sickness since suffering from migraines?

[Cardiacphysiologist]

As a child I was anything but motion sick. I used to be obsessed with spinning teacup rides and could take all the motion changes like a champion.

Recently, in the last 6 months or so, I have really started suffering with motion sickness, particularly in the car. Sometimes it is associated with a migraine but other times it just appears out of nowhere!

I love to travel a lot (but haven’t been able to since my most recent flare up) and I’m really eager to get back into it but my emetophobia makes me cautious about hopping in the car for even a hour.

Has anyone had any luck with overcoming this? Had a similar experience?

[Loulou1922]

Hi there, after twenty years of migraines I started from vestibular migraines (vertigo), and travelling in a car is awful for me. I’ve always suffered travel sickness if I’m not watching where I’m going (reading a map, looking at my phone or sitting backwards on a train etc) but now I feel sick just from the motion of moving. What helps is taking an anti sickness tablet for migraines like prochlorperazine - I find it works best to eat something first, and take it half and hour or more before travelling. I too have suffered badly all my life from ometophobia and understand how awful this is to then suffer migraines and have that added fear, but the tablets really do help massively!! Btw migraine sufferers are well known to be more likely to suffer travel sickness.

Best of luck x

[Wolfiesmom08]

Yes mine got worse. I even asked my neurologist about it and he said it’s totally part of the migraine brain. I was resistant to taking the tabs but now I carry in my purse for road trips because if it gets windy I have to have them. Once on a trip from the airport to my hotel in Costa Rica I threw up close to 7 times on the bus. I felt half dead by the time I got there. But having a full stomach and something salty with 7 up helps (I’m from the US ☺️).

[Loulou1922 in reply to Wolfiesmom08]

That sounds awful! My worst nightmare! 😢Glad to hear that medication is now helping to prevent the sickness. I find that fizzy drinks help me too, even better if they come in a can 😋

[love4godsword100]

Hi,

Yes motion sickness can be part of having migraines. You are not alone in that!

When I first learned how to drive I would get migraines but my body got use to it and I learned to enjoy the motion and it would help relax me.

You do have to know your limits. I wouldn't go on a rollercoaster anytime soon.

If there is a really windy road with alot of up and downs it can be ready bother some for me. What helps me is to blat the AC in the car and it helps cool my forehead and makes me feel better. Also chewing on him helps me and drinking water. You could try propel flavored water. It's good and full of vitamins that sometimes helps my headaches.

You could try listen to music or something to get ur mind off the motion as your body learns to adjust.

Hope you feel better!

[RoxyGrant]

I have Vertigo and always have. Turns out (I found out years later) that it's the blood vessel in my inner ear and IS connected to my migraines!