Car sickness while reading

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I'm about to take a long drive, and I get car sick sometimes so I usually take dramamine which works fine. Now, reading in the car gets me especially sick even if its a short drive I just can't read in the car, which I know happens to other people to. So my question is to someone who also gets car sickness when reading. If you take a motion sickness medicine, like dramamine, does it still get you sick when you read in the car? Or does the dramamine help enough to where I would be able to read in the car and not get sick?
 
If I take dramamine I fall asleep, but I get sick reading.

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This is the sort of thing that might vary a lot from person to person. Try it and see what happens.
 
Your thread caught my eye because I had the same problem years ago. I would go on long car rides on my way to different camping/backpacking destinations which involved sometimes as much as 50 to 70 miles on very windy back country roaRAB. I almost always was in the back seat and I always pretty much insisted on reading because I was/am a total bookworm.
These trips could involve as much as 5 or more hours in the car. I would be somewhat sick for nearly the entire trip. Camping, backpacking and all, and the condition did not improve that much until I got back home.

I know I'm not answering your dramamine question, but I did finally get over it completely and I did it simply by mind over matter. I was so sick of getting sick that I declared: I'm not getting car sick anymore, ever. And that was it. I don't know if that could work for you, but it worked for me, with no looking back. Now if only I could mind over matter a million other things in my life...
 
I am 64 years old and cannot ride in the backseat of a car more than a few blocks without getting carsick. Been that way all my life. Cannot read at all in a car. A friend told me the hold the book at the horizon - where the hood of the car meets the sky. Didn't do a bit of good. And dramamine puts me to sleep so I have no idea what it would do if I could stay awake!
 
Thanks for all your replys. I use the non-drowsy form of dramamine so thats why I dont fall asleep! I want to get some homework reading done since I'll be stuck in the car for so long, but don't want to get sick in the process!
 
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