Prescription sunglasses/googles with strong eye Rx? / Shop for me!

[smilingcat]

I took Eden's suggestion about 3 yrs ago and bought a replacement insert for my Scotts from Sports Optical. great place. then I lost my replacement on an airplane. I had my regular glasses on and I had put my Scotts in my purse... It fell out either in the cabin or somewhere on the concourse/jetway. sniff... I've been using my regular glasses since then.

Sports Optical was really nice about explaining things to me about different make/model. I found one I liked and he told me that the lens is inserted by cutting out the whole lens then inserting a prescription lens. And it would lose that smooth one piece cool looking factor. It would have a circular line around each lens as if someone took a marker to outline each of my eyes. That is what I remember him telling me. So I just ordered a replacement Scotts at the time. the one I lost... My first one literally dissolved from my sweat and the oil.

[zoom-zoom]

I will have to look at Sports Optical. I'd like to have polarized shades to keep in the car, too. And contacts are a definite no-go. Between all my allergies and the debris that flies around behind sunglasses that seems like a bad option for me.

[nuliajuk]

It's true about the curved lenses not working well with strong prescriptions, my husband had the same issues before he developed cataracts and his natural lenses were replaced with Toric artificial lenses.

Prior to that, he had a pair of prescription racketball goggles that he used for cycling, as well as a pair of traditional sunglasses with big flat lenses. His eyes are sensitive to wind, to he preferred the racketball goggles for most riding.

Now he has 20/13 vision in one eye and 20/15 in the other and can ride without a prescription. He's been buying sunglasses off the rack and really enjoying being able to do that.

e.t.a.: Here's a solution that I sometimes see on site visits. We're supposed to be using the special safety glasses with the dust gaskets that the client specifies for their minesites, but sometimes I see people using these add-on side shields for their regular prescription glasses:
http://www.northernsafety.com/News/A...-safety-device

[Thorn]

Along the lines of nuliajuk, if it is just for the cold winter days, a cheap solution is to buy over-the-glasses (OTG) safety glasses. I bought some off the internet that aren't the big, bulky safety glasses you get from the hardware store, but instead just fit over my glasses.

One of these days I'll buy prescription cycling glasses, but I'm not convinced I can successfully purchase glasses over the internet (I know, I know, many do it without issue, but I've had problems with in-person purchase that I'm skeptical)

[fallstoclimb]

Yeah I think I'm gonna try safety glasses and see how that works out at first. Zennoptical gets pricier when you put your Rx info in and I'm just not sure what will work out for me. Maybe next year I'll talk to my opthamologist about getting real rx glasses.

[soprano]

Fit-over sunglasses tend to have very full coverage and are a heck of a lot cheaper than prescription sunglasses. Try TJ Maxx.

[Boudicca]

I looked into these a year or so back when I couldn't wear lenses for a while. The insert-behind-dark-glasses route seemed to be the best one -- if your prescription is even remotely unusual, or if your eyes are weak it's just prohibitively expensive to create a curved rx lens that is large enough to keep all the dust and grit out of your eye.

[Catrin]

Fit-over sunglasses tend to have very full coverage and are a heck of a lot cheaper than prescription sunglasses. Try TJ Maxx.

I found these online - at $30 a pop that is a LOT better than what I paid a couple of years ago for wraparound Oakleys without a bifocal!


I DO wonder how well this actually works with a helmet - it is the side pieces of the two frames that has me wondering. This is affordable enough that a couple of pair would be feasible - one with amber and other with grey lens. They have both "Sport" and "Panorama" styling, either would be fine for riding/running/etc.