Wearing glasses when skiing
Discussion
Not really sure where this best sits but I assumed there might be a few skiers/boarders lurking, so here goes...
January will be the first time I'll be skiing since needing to wear glasses with a distance prescription. I don't really fancy the idea of goggles that go over the glasses as I know I'll fall and break them/me, so it looks like the alternatives are: contacts (never used them but happy to give them a try, although I do wonder if I'll need another pair of reading glasses); goggles with prescription lenses; or goggle inserts.
I'm tending towards the inserts but wonder if anyone on here has any experience of them, or indeed the other options?
January will be the first time I'll be skiing since needing to wear glasses with a distance prescription. I don't really fancy the idea of goggles that go over the glasses as I know I'll fall and break them/me, so it looks like the alternatives are: contacts (never used them but happy to give them a try, although I do wonder if I'll need another pair of reading glasses); goggles with prescription lenses; or goggle inserts.
I'm tending towards the inserts but wonder if anyone on here has any experience of them, or indeed the other options?
Helmet with built in visor.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boll%C3%A9-BACKLINE-VISOR...
Wear glasses underneath
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boll%C3%A9-BACKLINE-VISOR...
Wear glasses underneath
I wear my prescription sunglasses when conditions are right, or my regular glasses under my goggles in more adverse weather.
Never had an issue with comfort or fogging once moving.
I've got drier than average eyes, and struggle to wear contacts for more than a few hours, and I found contacts to be even more uncomfortable at altitude.
I know others who wear their contacts without issue though, so might be an option for you
Never had an issue with comfort or fogging once moving.
I've got drier than average eyes, and struggle to wear contacts for more than a few hours, and I found contacts to be even more uncomfortable at altitude.
I know others who wear their contacts without issue though, so might be an option for you
The_Doc said:
Helmet with built in visor.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boll%C3%A9-BACKLINE-VISOR...
Wear glasses underneath
When you consider that some will spend as much or more on each of their goggles and helmet that looks like good VFM.https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boll%C3%A9-BACKLINE-VISOR...
Wear glasses underneath
worldwidewebs said:
My only concern is what they are like in off-piste conditions and when I fall!
Which, to be honest, is why anybody with any sense does their skiing and other activities in disposable contact lenses. I would never ski, jetski, windsurf or anything else without them. They are brilliant things.Panamax said:
worldwidewebs said:
My only concern is what they are like in off-piste conditions and when I fall!
Which, to be honest, is why anybody with any sense does their skiing and other activities in disposable contact lenses. I would never ski, jetski, windsurf or anything else without them. They are brilliant things.Do try contacts - I tried in my 30's and didnt' persevere.
I tried again when 42 and persevered and I loved them. I've since had surgery so no need for anything.
Modern contacts are so thin you dont' know you have them in. Daily disposables.
I had contacts for regular vision (far) and I'd then have £1 readers with +2.75 lenses for reading in addition.
Worth having a trial fitting at your opticians as they show you how to put them in / take them out. You'll find it very odd at 1st but after around 1-2 weeks it's really nothing - I could take them out in a bar, and put them back in - simply to demonstrate how easy it is once you are used to it. Not very hygenic mind you!
They are cheap (le £1 a day for accuvue moist) - so you can carry spares in your pocket if you are worried , but they won't fall out in a boarding crash. More like if you fiddle with them.
I tried again when 42 and persevered and I loved them. I've since had surgery so no need for anything.
Modern contacts are so thin you dont' know you have them in. Daily disposables.
I had contacts for regular vision (far) and I'd then have £1 readers with +2.75 lenses for reading in addition.
Worth having a trial fitting at your opticians as they show you how to put them in / take them out. You'll find it very odd at 1st but after around 1-2 weeks it's really nothing - I could take them out in a bar, and put them back in - simply to demonstrate how easy it is once you are used to it. Not very hygenic mind you!
They are cheap (le £1 a day for accuvue moist) - so you can carry spares in your pocket if you are worried , but they won't fall out in a boarding crash. More like if you fiddle with them.
Edited by Griffith4ever on Monday 21st October 10:20
Contact tips:
- Don't let your optician sign you up for a lens plan. They'll try. Walk away with your prescription.
- Don't let them convince you you need weeklies. Start with dailies. They are so cheap that messing up a lense here and there doesn't matter. Get used ot lenses THEN make expensive decisions. I sent a very reluctant ,. long suffering glasses wearer in to try lenses and they completely buggered it up by putting him and his wife on weekly or monthlies, with washing solution , and all that guff. Had them signed up . They both gave up almost instanty. Dialies are super thin - like you can't feel them once in.
- They'll give you a weeks trial pack or two - they always seem to pick the pricey option. e.s. One Day Acuvue Moist are cheap as chips and are wafer thin, but they'll push Acuvue Oasis - and they are more expensive , and a touch thicker.
- Lenses online are plentiful, cheap, and fast. Shop around. Dont forget you need both eyes :-) Don't be tempted by super cheap dailies - I've tried all sorts , they just tear/rip at the slightest hint of eye rubbing. I found Acuvue moist dailies to be the perfect price/quality point.
- Stick with it - you are not "touching your eye ball" - you are touching it THROUGH the lense as you put it in. At 1st you'll flinch , but after a week or two oit feels normalised and you no longer flinch.
- Learn about the shape of your eyeball so you understand what's hapenning when you put them in - thei helped me.
- If you struggle, pour a bit of the fluid from the lense packet into the lense on your finger tip, careful not to pour so much in it flips inside out. Liquid makes the lense suck itself onto your eye super easily. The secret to easy lense life is clean hands (vital), dry finger tip, wet inner lense. The wetter your finger tip, the more relucatnt the lense will be to transfer to your eye. I used to wipe ma hands dry, slip lense on finger tip, drop a littel solution in lense, then the lense would pretty much jump from my finger to my eye. Any irritation is almost always because your hands were dirty or soapy.
- Multifocals are very clever but don't start going down that road till you are used ot regulars. Multis are thicker, and you have to teach your brain what the hell is going on. I didn't get on with them. Many people of course do. My focus kept jumping all over the place. I've had single focual length lense replacement now (surgery) , but my Mother had multifocal lense replacement and she loves them.
- Don't let your optician sign you up for a lens plan. They'll try. Walk away with your prescription.
- Don't let them convince you you need weeklies. Start with dailies. They are so cheap that messing up a lense here and there doesn't matter. Get used ot lenses THEN make expensive decisions. I sent a very reluctant ,. long suffering glasses wearer in to try lenses and they completely buggered it up by putting him and his wife on weekly or monthlies, with washing solution , and all that guff. Had them signed up . They both gave up almost instanty. Dialies are super thin - like you can't feel them once in.
- They'll give you a weeks trial pack or two - they always seem to pick the pricey option. e.s. One Day Acuvue Moist are cheap as chips and are wafer thin, but they'll push Acuvue Oasis - and they are more expensive , and a touch thicker.
- Lenses online are plentiful, cheap, and fast. Shop around. Dont forget you need both eyes :-) Don't be tempted by super cheap dailies - I've tried all sorts , they just tear/rip at the slightest hint of eye rubbing. I found Acuvue moist dailies to be the perfect price/quality point.
- Stick with it - you are not "touching your eye ball" - you are touching it THROUGH the lense as you put it in. At 1st you'll flinch , but after a week or two oit feels normalised and you no longer flinch.
- Learn about the shape of your eyeball so you understand what's hapenning when you put them in - thei helped me.
- If you struggle, pour a bit of the fluid from the lense packet into the lense on your finger tip, careful not to pour so much in it flips inside out. Liquid makes the lense suck itself onto your eye super easily. The secret to easy lense life is clean hands (vital), dry finger tip, wet inner lense. The wetter your finger tip, the more relucatnt the lense will be to transfer to your eye. I used to wipe ma hands dry, slip lense on finger tip, drop a littel solution in lense, then the lense would pretty much jump from my finger to my eye. Any irritation is almost always because your hands were dirty or soapy.
- Multifocals are very clever but don't start going down that road till you are used ot regulars. Multis are thicker, and you have to teach your brain what the hell is going on. I didn't get on with them. Many people of course do. My focus kept jumping all over the place. I've had single focual length lense replacement now (surgery) , but my Mother had multifocal lense replacement and she loves them.
Edited by Griffith4ever on Monday 21st October 13:22
The_Doc said:
Helmet with built in visor.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boll%C3%A9-BACKLINE-VISOR...
Wear glasses underneath
This is what I do. I wear photochromatic specs too so they double as sunglasses. Switching from goggles to visor was one of the best decisions and I'd never go back.https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boll%C3%A9-BACKLINE-VISOR...
Wear glasses underneath
Griffith4ever said:
Do try contacts - I tried in my 30's and didnt' persevere.
I tried again when 42 and persevered and I loved them. I've since had surgery so no need for anything.
Modern contacts are so thin you dont' know you have them in. Daily disposables.
I had contacts for regular vision (far) and I'd then have £1 readers with +2.75 lenses for reading in addition.
Worth having a trial fitting at your opticians as they show you how to put them in / take them out. You'll find it very odd at 1st but after around 1-2 weeks it's really nothing - I could take them out in a bar, and put them back in - simply to demonstrate how easy it is once you are used to it. Not very hygenic mind you!
They are cheap (le £1 a day for accuvue moist) - so you can carry spares in your pocket if you are worried , but they won't fall out in a boarding crash. More like if you fiddle with them.
This. I don't like wearing contacts and am more than happy wearing glasses all day, which I do. But for anything involving exertion I'll stick my daily disposables in. They are very different to the old glass things of 30 years ago, are very thin and really easy to put in and get out.I tried again when 42 and persevered and I loved them. I've since had surgery so no need for anything.
Modern contacts are so thin you dont' know you have them in. Daily disposables.
I had contacts for regular vision (far) and I'd then have £1 readers with +2.75 lenses for reading in addition.
Worth having a trial fitting at your opticians as they show you how to put them in / take them out. You'll find it very odd at 1st but after around 1-2 weeks it's really nothing - I could take them out in a bar, and put them back in - simply to demonstrate how easy it is once you are used to it. Not very hygenic mind you!
They are cheap (le £1 a day for accuvue moist) - so you can carry spares in your pocket if you are worried , but they won't fall out in a boarding crash. More like if you fiddle with them.
Edited by Griffith4ever on Monday 21st October 10:20
My son recently swapped to contacts for sport and it did take him a while to get on with putting them in and taking them out, but now it's second nature. He did used to have ski goggles that accommodated his glasses as he was too young for contacts, but he much prefers the contacts for skiing.
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