Wearing glasses and going swimming

[mackie69]

Does anyone on here wear glasses and still go swimming? My daughter is about to start swimming and I am a bit worried about her not wearing them, falling off the edge etc. How do others manage it?

 

Thanks.

[gregorysgirl]

Hi I go swimming regularly and cannot see a thing without my glasses. I buy disposable contact lenses from the optition and wear them with swimming goggles. The lenses work out at about £6.50 per month and well worth it for me, but it does depend upon how old your daughter is and whether you can afford this extra cost. You can get prescription goggles from optitions too but I have no idea how good they are as I have never used them.

[medusa]

If your daughter is likely to go swimming regularly then it may be worth you looking into prescription goggles for her- they are a lot less expensive than they used to be if you buy some of the standard prescription ones. They don't give vision with as good vision as your glasses do, but it's a whole heap better than not being able to see.

 

My vision eventually got so bad that they don't make goggles up to my prescription so I moved to disposable contact lenses and normal goggles.

 

EDIT- I googled for 'prescription swimming goggles' and got this up as the first result- only £19.99 for a pair with approximately correct vision. Of course it all depends on your daughter being old enough to wear them, but I'm sure there are places that make children's ones too:

 

Linky

[Dark Moomin]

I don't swim often, but have always swum in glasses - however its fine if you are doing leisurely plodding up and down but ny diving or jumping in, and often underwater swimming doesn't work so well.

 

It isn;'t recommended to wear contacts when swimming because of infection risk, but I;'d imagine with goggles the risk is no greater than general contact use.

 

I'm amazed at how cheap those prescription goggles are - bet they don't have my prescription tho!

[bunnykins]

Does anyone on here wear glasses and still go swimming? My daughter is about to start swimming and I am a bit worried about her not wearing them, falling off the edge etc. How do others manage it?

 

Thanks.

 

my daughter just doesnt wear hers for swimming,

[medusa]

If your daughter is too small to wear adult goggles then there are also children's sizes:

 

linky

[medusa]

 

I'm amazed at how cheap those prescription goggles are - bet they don't have my prescription tho!

 

That was my issue- the only ones that I could afford were approximate prescription and they only went up to -8, but I'm -12 in both eyes.

[Alex C.]

I think I'm a bit strange - I (genuinely) can see much better underwater (its as if I'm wearing my glasses) than I can out of water...

[mackie69]

Thanks for the replies. My daughter is only six and will be having lessons so will be swimming at least once a week. She is long sighted and her eye sight has improved since she started wearing glasses (she was extremely long sighted before and now she is just long sighted) so i thought I would explore all of her options. She learnt to cope without arm bands very quickly and I didn't want her eye sight to hold her back.

[Rich]

I think I'm a bit strange - I (genuinely) can see much better underwater (its as if I'm wearing my glasses) than I can out of water...

 

Like me, I swim better underwater than with my head above water.

 

Always have done.