The brain is a wonderful thing, and it adapted to this change relatively quickly and before too long I began to get used to this new way of seeing things. I was concerned the strain of adapting to this would create a headache and an inability to get on with TravelShades, but I needn’t have worried.
With absolute honesty, I found having the vision from one eye affected was rather alarming at first. The glasses arrived within a couple of days, and it was quite an experience putting them on for the first time. So I was thrilled to be offered a pair to try. If I could reduce the debilitating symptoms of dizziness and nausea by simply putting on a pair of sunglasses, it could make things so much easier for me. I have to say that the theory behind this really intrigued me and I was really quite eager to give them a go. And even more fascinating, “The special lens also allows light to pass through so the occluded, covered eye may still see an image and can relay this message to the brain but with no indication of movement” How amazing is that? Through extensive research and product development, the design of TravelShades has been refined to become an ingenious solution where one pair of glasses can be flipped so that the wearer has the choice to cover either eye at any time. Of course there are a lot more factors that have been considered in the creation of TravelShades than simply covering one eye. By reducing the amount of visual motion picked up by one eye, TravelShades promise to reduce that conflict and therefore the unpleasant symptoms it creates. Motion sickness is caused by conflicting messages received by the brain from the eyes (visual system) and ears (vestibular system), or put another way your eyes see movement but your body doesn’t sense that same amount of movement, and it causes confusion in the brain. TravelShades are a revolutionary new form of sunglasses that aim to combat motion sickness by reducing the visual stimuli to one eye. It sounds too good to be true, right? Well, let me introduce you to TravelShades… So imagine my interest when I heard about a new product that promised to reduce the effects of motion sickness without any kind of medication. This, as you can imagine, is not the best experience for a blogger and freelance online media specialist! And even more alarmingly, I seem to have started suffering from a form of “virtual motion sickness” over the past couple of years, where looking at my computer screen sometimes makes me feel sick to my stomach, thanks to scrolling information and scanning multiple pages at speed. My first clue that I was pregnant was how nauseous I got on the bus journey just after conceiving (a good couple of weeks before those two pink lines showed up on a test!) and I continue to feel sick and panicky whenever I have to set foot on a plane, because nothing I do seems to settle my stomach when flying.Īnd since a severe bout of labyrinthitis in 2008, I even find myself feeling nauseated simply doing the grocery shop some days (which I assume is due to the sheer amount of eye movement involved in trying to locate items I need and compare prices across shelves).
But still I continued to suffer from time to time. Believe it or not, I actually became able to read a book on the village bus that swerved around several bendy roads on its route, due to that daily commute. Travelling across the UK by train as a student enabled me to travel without even needing travel sickness tablets, as did commuting to work every day by bus. To be fair, the more I travelled and the older I got, the more my body seemed able to cope with it. But even with such precautionary measures, there were still many occasions when I felt sick to my stomach by the time we reached our destination. It started when I threw up all over the back of the car as a toddler, just as we pulled up into the driveway (oh dear!) and I have many childhood memories of taking travel sickness tablets before any journey, hoping to avoid a repeat of that experience.
But the reality is that I have struggled with motion sickness to varying degrees throughout my life, and still do. After all, I studied foreign languages at University, which involved quite a lot of international travel. You might be surprised to know that I’ve suffered from motion sickness since I was a very young child. Do you suffer from motion sickness? Do you hate how much it affects your ability to enjoy travelling (either because you feel sick or you feel drowsy thanks to anti-sickness medication)? Yeah, me too…
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