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Not to go into my whole back story, but I've been a racer/rider most of my life. I found I needed glasses when I was 10-11. My vision wasn't bad enough to need correction while riding. Spring forward to 13-14 yrs old, I ended up getting contacts and never looked back.
Now currently I'm 34 yrs old, and I have developed a sensitivity to my contacts. Every time I wear them I get serious neck pain and discomfort in my eyes, so I have resorted to using my glasses more and more.
My question to you guys and gals is: Do most of you wear contacts, glasses, corrective surgery, or rx lenses in your goggles while riding? I am super sensitive to any vision distortion, so when I try riding with my glasses on under my goggles, it just doesn't work! I feel a slight vertigo sensation and cant hit my lines, not to mention not feeling safe out there.
I would think about getting corrective surgery, but I get hesitant when I hear about horror stories. My brother had it done like 15 years ago and has had no problems. I feel like with my luck, I would end up with some sorta issue.
What do the pro's do? Do they all have 20/20 vision? Hard to believe...
Now currently I'm 34 yrs old, and I have developed a sensitivity to my contacts. Every time I wear them I get serious neck pain and discomfort in my eyes, so I have resorted to using my glasses more and more.
My question to you guys and gals is: Do most of you wear contacts, glasses, corrective surgery, or rx lenses in your goggles while riding? I am super sensitive to any vision distortion, so when I try riding with my glasses on under my goggles, it just doesn't work! I feel a slight vertigo sensation and cant hit my lines, not to mention not feeling safe out there.
I would think about getting corrective surgery, but I get hesitant when I hear about horror stories. My brother had it done like 15 years ago and has had no problems. I feel like with my luck, I would end up with some sorta issue.
What do the pro's do? Do they all have 20/20 vision? Hard to believe...
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Im probably like most people when im practicing no fogging problem but when i go to a race i sweat more due to nerves causing fogging. Now i haven't raced with the inserts yet and when I have fogged with them the fog goes away way quicker then my glasses would. SportsRX will give you inserts for any MX goggle you want to so that is a plus!
I am in the market for surgeries in the near future tho!
All that said, if I could have Lasik, I would jump all over it. Unfortunately, the diopter correction needed on my eyes exceeds what is currently available with Lasik. If you can get Lasik, get it. If not, find an optometrist that will work with you to find a contact formulation that works for you. I had a sensitivity to the new Silicon formula contacts about 5 years ago and went back to an older formulation contact and all the sensitivity went away. Been happy with them ever since.
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I have nearsightedness so if I was to get LASIK it would seem like most the time I would need reading glasses anyway at work to do anything mechanically, computer etc.
I have bad astigmatism and also a cornea scar in my left eye that's a whole nother story.
So even with contacts, my left eye the best they could get was something like 20/100.
That was until I found these new contacts that are called Soft perm what that means is it has the old school gas permeable semi-rigid Center Lens with a soft skirt attached to it. So you get the best of both worlds if you have bad stigmatism or a cornea scar like I have.
Atigmatism is an irregularity on the cornea meaning it's not smooth soft contacts do not really correct for that.
Gas permeable lenses do and you can see the best with gas perms for my situation.
They are much more expensive than regular soft lenses and throwaways though.
I only use it in my left eye and I use a normal soft toric lens in my right eye as it's much more comfortable regarding dust etc.
If I get dust or anything in my left eye it's very painful so when I ride I use goggle lenses that have the dense foam.
Scott used to make them called the sand goggle.
I can't use normal goggles with coarse foam. Before that I used to tape the top of the foam.
for long desert events like Barstow to Vegas I've even used baby oil on the foam to help prevent dust getting on the inside of the lens and in my eye.
At the time I was wearing oakley o frames and got some inserts made. The first set I got were terrible, they gave me a headache and distorted my vision terribly. I sent those back and they sent me another set corrected for the curvature. Those were better but still distorted too much to ride
I got Scott Split OTG's and they are good. Fit over my glasses well, don't fog up either. Another thing I like is that I wear transition glasses so they tint to suit the conditions. I don't have to worry about clear lens or tinted lens, I just wear the clear all the time The only thing I don't like is because they sit out further from my face to fit over my glasses they pinch my nose a bit. I ended up trimming the foam around my nose back to the frame and they are now a lot better
I would like to get corrective surgery done but I really don't hate wearing glasses that much
disclaimer-I do not work for them, just a suggestion
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