If you're relying on something external to quell your seasickness then you'll never conquer it. It has to come from inside you. You have to get your sea legs. When I went sailing on deep seas for the first time--eegad, I got sick! Never vomited but came close and just because you don't vomit doesn't mean you aren't sick off your ass. I was so sick, I hallucinated and it felt like my head had been filled with broken glass and was being beaten on with a deadblow hammer. It was just miserable. I used the patch but it dried my mouth out which made the sickness worse (it is, after all, inside your head).

Dramamines worked well for me but I was determined to conquer it cold. I did but I still had days when it caught up to me and laid me low for a while. I remember once standing way up forward fixing an ABT during pitching seas and not even feeling the tiniest bit queasy in spite of the horrendous up and down motion that would have laid me out in my early days. I also remember walking a sounding & security watch during a hurricane where we had to pull away from the pier and anchor in the middle of the harbor. Unbelievably rough waters and I walked my watch completely unaffected. It's a good feeling to have simply conquered it. But, as I said, I still had that occasional day when I wasn't worth a shit.