Those of you who wear glasses

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Vikki89

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Do you wear them while riding? I now have to wear glasses all the time and have found wearing them while hacking ok unless we go for a good canter but in lessons and jumping they slip down my nose :( and i have to keep pushing them up. I don't really want to be doing this round a course of jumps and would still like to be able to see the jumps clearly.
Anyone know of a product which can help keep them in place?
 
I wear them when riding but mainly I hack, I measure the speedy excitement of the ride by how far they have slipped.......am thinking of doing the laser surgery thing as they are quite mild and regular shape etc so apparently would work well. but got to save up for it!
 
ooo not sure i could go through the laser surgery after watching it on tv, hopefully my eyes should correct themselves. I used to not be able to see close up clearly, they were corrected for that and have gone the other way as now everything in the distance is blurry :(
 
Mine slip sometimes too, the hotter and redder I get the lower they go.

In the past, I've had more trouble with cheap glasses from the internet where the arms have been too long. Heavy, larger glasses are also more troublesome.

Have a look in the cycling/sports/sailing shop for some 'wally' strings. They come in all shapes and sizes and there are stretchy ones which can keep the glasses firmly attached to your face without much trouble.
 
Hubby wears his specs all the time including for riding and doesn't have any problems while riding. I think if your specs are slipping badly during canter then you probably need them adjusting. Hubby doesn't jump but does do a lot of sitting trot as well as cantering whilst schooling.

You can buy soft straps that go round the back to stop your glasses falling off but I'm not sure that you should really need them. I've never seen anyone down the yard wearing one and a lot wear specs (including our old YM).

The only other thing would be to look for some specs that have more "full" hooks for your ears. Some sports sunglasses have these, they are flexible and go almost the full way round your ear.
 
yes I ride in my glasses all the time. If they fit properly they shouldn't slip down your nose!

I do wear contacts for competing, mainly through vanity. :o
 
I wear glasses, for xc, jumping, hacking, flatwork etc. and my glasses don't slip at all. Maybe yours don't fit very well? Might be worth talking to your optition about it :) I do worry about falling off in then, but I've never had a problem :) I tried contacts but didn't like them at all :eek:
 
All vision glasses nowadays are safety glass and in the unlikely event that they break, you won't get hurt!

You can buy elastic sports bands for glasses for less than a pound and they will keep them in place.
 
I have been back to the opticians a few times and had them re adjusted but it never seems to work. I will have to have a look for these elastic straps and maybe see about contacts when i next go in, it had crossed my mind about safety with falling off with glasses on.
 
I wear contacts as I am clumsy and tend to nock myself anyway and had a fall in glasses and managed to land on my face and bend them enough than the nose pad damaged the corner of my eye. I also found them really irritating in the rain.
 
I have to wear mine all the time - I'm blind as a bat without them - they don't slip at all. However, I have bought a cheap spare pair from Specsavers for £25 (bearing in mind that my 'proper' pair were £300) and wear them whilst riding as I have scratched three lenses in the last year alone (leadrope flicked up and got me, walked into a rake, wiped glasses on T shirt whilst plastering)
I'm not totally accident prone - honest!!
I cant have contacts because i have a stigmatism
 
They are annoying in the rain too, either have to ride with rain drops on them or wipe them and have water smeared across them. Its been dry so haven't had that problem recently.
 
I wear glasses, used to wear contact lenses all the time but since I ended up in hospital with a very bad corneal ulcer, I was advised not to wear them, only odd times.

I don't like wearing glasses when riding, my others used to slip down my nose but my new ones don't anymore, however I've paid a price for this, I now have perminant red marks on my nose where they sit, if they were any looser they would slip down though. I did actually hurt my nose the other week, when I nearly got trodden on while grooming the legs, horse shot to the side, knocked the peak of my hat (fixed peak) and rammed it into my glasses, which then rammed into my nose....ouch! :mad: and cut the bridge of my nose :o:D

So I wear my contacts at the weekend and stick to glasses during the week so I don't get a 'glasses face' :D (where you start to look odd without your glasses :eek:) lol
 
nicelittle said:
I cant have contacts because i have a stigmatism
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I have astigmatism in both eyes and have soft contacts especially made to accomodate this (only a couple of quid a month more than standard ones).

In answer to original question I wear glasses whilst schooling and hacking. If I'm competing or jumping lots I wear contacts, both because I think its safer (less chance of them stabbing you if you fall) and also because I am incredibly vain :D
 
I wear glasses and can't take the sun so always ride in a hat with a peak, obviously helps with the rain too! I'm as blind as a bat without them and have them 'hooked' around my ears for riding. When I ride regularly, I've been known to have the arms covered in elastoplast to cushion my poor ears!
I would love contacts but when I tried them, I fainted when the first one was put in, that put me off completely! Now I've worn glasses for so long, nobody would know who I was if I suddenly had contacts!
 
MFH9 said:
I wear glasses and can't take the sun so always ride in a hat with a peak, obviously helps with the rain too! I'm as blind as a bat without them and have them 'hooked' around my ears for riding. When I ride regularly, I've been known to have the arms covered in elastoplast to cushion my poor ears!
I would love contacts but when I tried them, I fainted when the first one was put in, that put me off completely! Now I've worn glasses for so long, nobody would know who I was if I suddenly had contacts!
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you have acquired a glasses face :D
 
I wear my glasses all of the time. I used to take them off for riding but eyesight got worse so now I wear them all the time, don't really have a problem with them slipping but they are quite tight behind my ears and don't really have any room to slip. I have the permanent red marks on either side of my nose too... and thanks to lying in the sun at a show yesterday whilst waiting for our class a small white band across the top of my nose from the bridge of my glasses :D

The only time I don't ride in them is when it's torrential rain... that makes schooling interesting as I can't see the markers or anybody else in the school!!!!
 
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cazzah said:
I have astigmatism in both eyes and have soft contacts especially made to accomodate this (only a couple of quid a month more than standard ones).

In answer to original question I wear glasses whilst schooling and hacking. If I'm competing or jumping lots I wear contacts, both because I think its safer (less chance of them stabbing you if you fall) and also because I am incredibly vain :D
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I also have astigmatism and get lenses that are made for this. I have what is known as a toric lense for my worst eye and a normal lense for the not so bad eye
 
mine don't slip and they've never broken in any of my (too frequent) falls. But they do get steamed up in the school and covered in rain and snow drops when I'm out. But if I didn't wear them I wouldn't be able to see a thing so going without isn't an option.
 
I wear my glasses all the time except when competing, when I wear my contact lenses. I don't have a problem with my glasses slipping down my nose, but they are very light weight.
 
I was born extremely short sighted, but have worn contact lenses for the past 13 years or so, I hate wearing my glasses, and they're relatively heavy, and because I cant afford new frames I use my trusty NHS frames with my lenses, and if I tried to ride in them they would come flying off my faces, I was brushing my teeth and they fell into the sink :-\ haha

It's not great riding with contacts when sand school gets in your eye :-0
 
Up until January I'd have agreed about not wearing glasses for jumping/hunting etc, but then this happened...

My friend was wearing his glasses out hunting (he has a neoprene strap for his from a sailing place) when a twig went into his eye as he rode under some low branches. His glasses were knocked off, and the twig broke off the branch. There was blood everywhere and he was in a lot of pain.

The specialist actually said that if he'd not had glasses on it could have blinded him, but they knocked the twig enough that it "just" went between his eye and the socket. He was very sore for a day or two, but he's fine now.

He's even more determined now to wear his glasses not contacts, but I'm sure his wife will persuade him to try contacts and goggles! ;)
 
Contact lenses all the way! I love them.

My prescription is so high (blind as a bat!) that the only way to reduce the thickness is with zeiss glass lenses. These are heavy and really do slip down your nose, quite apart from the potential safety problem of glass lenses when I inevitably hit the deck!!:p
 
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They probably just need the arms bending a bit more to keep them more upright, I never ride without mine as 1) They are photocromatic, so become sunglasses when I'm outside, and 2) I'm blind as a bat :D
 
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