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Subject: Re: Seasickness Posted on: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:18:47 +0000 (UTC)

On Aug 28, 3:04 pm, "Edward M. Kennedy" wrote:
> "LeeNY" wrote in
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> > > > I have to agree with you, Tom. For those that don't suffer from motion
> > > > sickness, it's hard to make them understand the utter misery one feels
> > > > when they do get it. I'm very prone to any kind of motion sickness, so
> > > > it was a no-brainer that I would be medicated before stepping on board
> > > > any ship, and would stay medicated for the duration. Even 5 minutes of
> > > > feeling seasick is too long a time - it's that uncomfortable for me.
> > > > Not gonna waste a minute of my cruise feeling miserable, to find out
> > > > that I do, in fact need motion sick drugs - and then try to play catch-
> > > > up, in hopes that I'll feel better at some point. Kind of like pain
> > > > management (just had foot surgery, so kind of on my mind these past
> > > > few weeks) - much easier and effective to stay on top of the pain
> > > > (keeping up with the every-four-hours dose) than to let the pain
> > > > killers wear off totally, take the meds and then wait, uncomfortably
> > > > for the drugs to take effect.
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> > > Painkillers are different. You don't need a reason to take them.
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> > In my post, I wasn't discussing recreational drug use. Not sure what
> > point you were attempting to make.
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> With MS drugs there's a trade-off with unwanted side effects.
> Painkillers are win-win, so it's not a good analogy.

Believe me...pain killers have unwanted side effects; nausea,
constipation, drowsiness to name a few. Worth it to a point, to
alleviate discomfort, but the side effects got pretty tiresome, pretty
quick.

My analogy stands.

Lee

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> --Tedward