November 10, 2008

• Do you take off the glasses to bike? My eyes bother me when I take off my glasses, then use my eyes. They aren't bothered when I take off my glasses to sleep, but when I take them off and stay active (like when I go for a run), they get bothered. I can't tell if it's the same kind of sensation that you are talking about. If it is, it's normal. Do you get the same feeling if you try to read with your glasses off?
• Sounds like some kind of allergic reaction. Minor but enough to cause the problem? Goggles similar to those worn in carpentry workshops might help, or have a talk with an optician?
• my eyes water when i bike as well, but i don't wear glasses anymore since they shot teh "lasers" in my eyes... i just wear sunglasses to look cool.
• I can't see without my glasses, I'm pretty myopic. Don't wear contacts because they irritate my eyes - maybe the two are connected? I was thinking about it just now, being outside in the evening air, and half wondered if it was to do with bouncing around and straining my eyes refocusing all the time. After a while, my eyes sting and feel gritty, like when you're really sleep-deprived, maybe, or working in a dusty environment. But as I said, there wasn't any dust yesterday on the track. I've talked to an optician before about getting some super-cool sports glasses (because I keep getting my glasses knocked off playing netball) but they had nothing useful to offer. I may need to try a different place and get something which will work for both situations. I skipped the triathlon round this year after that sprain I was such a big wuss over, but I'd like to try again next year depending on my college schedule, and this would be a (minor) impediment.
• I have something like that, when I go cycling to the swimming pool in the morning, but it starts sooner, after two minutes or so. I wear glasses all the time. My guess is it has something to do with forgetting to blink in time while cycling too fast in the relative cold. At the first traffic lights I am crying like a baby, causing some concern around me. I try to smile reassuringly, but that makes people even more concerned. Then I look really angry at them, and they cautiously move away.
• A really cold wind causes my eyes to water too. It only becomes worrying, to me, when it's sufficiently cold that one's tears begin to freeze, blinking feels sort of crunchy and you can't really see very well at all. In such conditions, I've found that it's best not to be riding a bike. That's one of the reasons I moved south. How about a pair of old-timey aviator goggles over your glasses? Add a leather flying helmet and a silk scarf and you'd make quite an impression on the bike trails. Tally-ho! Well, you did ask for suggestions
• Christmas is coming, I could be singing "Snoopy's Christmas" while pedalling... I have seriously considered safety goggles over my real goggles, and the only reason I haven't followed through is the effect on my peripheral vision. I kid you not. Jernie, yeah, you sound like me. Not watering quite that badly, though. That sounds terrible! Maybe there's just a proportion of the population who have this problem.
• like when you're really sleep-deprived That's the feeling I was talking about. I get anytime I'm not wearing my glasses, but using my eyes. That's just eyestrain from taking off your glasses. Your eyes having to perform in a slightly different manner than normally, so they get tired. I bet that our vision correction slightly uncrosses our eyes, so without the correction, we have to slightly cross our eyes. Just hair, but continuously.
• That fits, then, if it's caused by constant refocusing from all the bouncing off rocks and stuff. Like I said, I never take my glasses off except to sleep because I am quite useless without them, so there's none of that change in performance from taking them off and on. Yesterday it was only in my right eye - I must pay attention to whether it's always that eye only, because maybe that's my weak eye? Perhaps it's a combination of cold breeze and eye strain, then, in which case I'll mention it to my optician at my next checkup.
• I think it's mostly the breeze provoking your eyes to water. When I cycled to work, I'd have streaming eyes about six months of the year when the wind was stronger and colder. I think you can get prescription wraparound glasses/sunglasses, though the only ones I've found via google are pretty scary looking.
• Prescription goggles?
• I'm no athlete, but when my allergies kick up I find I need some extra eye lubricant. This is what I generally use - even thought it's designed for when you're sleeping it's the only thing that'll take the gritty feeling away for me.
• Seconding the rx for prescription wrap-around sunglasses!* I have bifocals, and if I wear them outside it's like using a magnifying glass on ants. Poached eyeballs. What finally worked is getting the rx in a very dark wraparound that protects my eyes from both the sun and the wind. I hate that I get that raccoon tan thing going in the summer, but my eyes don't tear and burn now like they used to. For the record, my eyes are blue, and it bothers me more than the brown-eyed people I know. (yadda yadda yadda, anecdotal one-rat study) *although I like islander's idea of old-timey aviator goggles, a leather flying helmet and a silk scarf a LOT!
• Buncha speckies.
• Kit has no need for glasses, having proved the old wives' tale and wound up blind.
• I have the same affliction. Walking into a cold winter wind makes me tear up and even freeze up to the point where I have little icicles hanging from my eyelashes. The solution is to stay indoors all winter, or at least drive everywhere you need to go.
• YOU FUNNY GUY CAPPY!!!!!
• Sadly, "this product has been discontinued".
• although I like islander's idea of old-timey aviator goggles, a leather flying helmet and a silk scarf a LOT! Ah, yes, the old Isadora Duncan Method™.
• Prescription goggles, or safety glasses that fit over your glasses, with clear plastic guards on the side. Prescription goggles would be better though, if you can afford them. It's probably the cold air, plus the wind blowing dirt in your eyes. The trail may not be dusty, but that doesn't mean there's no dirt at all blowing around.
• I can probably convince my optician to let me pay off something as extravagant as a pair of dark-tinted wraparound prescription glasses. That sounds both practical and cool, since my last prescription sunglasses are six years old now and two changes in prescriptions ago - plus they're not wraparound.
• Do we know that it's not some allergic reaction to pollen or whatnot? It's when you're on the bike that you're suddenly outdoors for a much longer period of time, no?
• We want a picture of you with your nifty dark-tints! Don't forget the leather helmet and silk scarf.
• Trace, I really think you should just leave the fuddy-duddy ol' glasses at home and go biking on some high mountain paths with lots of delightful cliffs on either side and at the bottom of the cliffs there are some wonderful giant spiky cactuses and cute little ravenous wolves that feast on the flesh of the creatures that accidentally plunge down below to their doom; but first I'd appreciate it if you update your will so that you leave MoFi to me and the residual clause for Hank. Thanks. And happy cycling.
• Nah Capt, I do actually leave the house on a regular basis for extended periods of time and with spring being here (aside from last week's random snowfall) I've been burying my face in flowers for the last couple of weeks with no ill effects.
• Spring! Pfft! Don't be silly. It's November!
• Today it was 24C; last Thursday we had snow to sea level. Go figure. What, isn't the weather getting warmer where you are? You poor sucker!
• Ak-chew-ally, I get to wear my flappy hat, so I am happy. Flappy hat, a-flappy flappy Wearing you, it makes me happy.