Swimming with prescription glasses?

You might be able to order prescription goggles?

You might be able to order prescription goggles?

this i saw it in an triathlon magazine

What do you need to focus so clearly on while you're swimming?

Hi guys, I want to try swimming but there is one issue. I wear prescription glasses and for swimming I cannot remove them. What are the options I have got? I don't think I can wear swimming goggles on top of my glasses. If somebody wears glasses and also do swimming please advise. Thanks.

I ordered my prescription goggles through amazon, for 15 bucks or so. You just need to know what diopter to order, which your optometrist can tell you.

I'm blind as a bat (can't see more than six inches in front of my face other than blurry colors), and I just swim without the glasses. If you're doing laps, you have lanes to follow which are physical reminders that you don't even need to see. It takes getting used to, but it's doable.

If you must, you can get contacts and wear goggles with them. But for the most part, you don't really need to see to do laps anyway. (The prescription goggles everyone keeps talking about cheaply on the internet wouldn't work for me - I have pretty severe astigmatism and my left eye has to be custom made - the online order stuff never works for my eyes. But everyone's eyes are different.)

You can get goggles, i leave my contacts in which you shouldn't really. Can get away with it if you don't need to put your face in. Or i just swim without them, can't see clearly, but as long as i can see to walk (short sighted) it really doesn't matter when you're in the water, its all blurry anyway!

My 17 yr old wears Rx glasses & is a competitive swimmer. He has astigmatism & we bought Rx lenses for his swim goggles but he never uses them :grumble: He says he sees better underwater without glasses :sick:

We also bought a pair for him for wrestling but again, he never wore them, just squinted & grabbed at anything that came within striking distance. It was quite funny to watch & he got very good at sensing stuff rather than relying on his eyes.

By the way, his glasses are pretty thick :ohwell:

I swim with mine on and don't bother to cover them. I have metal frames and it has not hurt them. But thats just me.

I used to wear contacts every time I went to the pool, until I got a pair of these:

http://www.amazon.com/Speedo-Vanquisher-Optical-Goggle-Smoke/dp/B001HBHVXU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383952329&sr=8-1&keywords=speedo+vanquisher+optical+goggle

They are not at all expensive, and much better than dealing with the hassle of contacts every time you want to swim, or not being able to see the lane clock.

You will need to find out what your eyeglass prescription is if you don't know it already. The number you need is the diopter. It should be a number in the format of minus something-point-something, like -2.15 for example. There will be a separate prescription for the right and left eye.

My prescription is -3.25 for one eye and my 2.75 for the other. Splitting the difference and getting -3.0 works fine for me; I can't really tell the difference between these and my regular glasses. If you have a very extreme difference between your right and left eye, you can order two pairs of goggles and combine them (the goggles are made with a separate left and right goggle, connected by a removable bridge piece. There are three different sizes of bridge piece that come with the goggles to fit your face).

This is not an expensive experiment to try. It worked great for me.