Contacts: Who's wearing them under their goggles and who isn't?
At my last eye exam, my dr. sternly lectured me about the evils of swimming with contacts. When your goggles leak, which seems inevitable, the chlorine seeps in the lens, contaminates it and can thereby irritate your cornea.
I wore contacts my whole youth without incident, but now I notice some dry eye and redness. The problem is I don't like most prescription goggles.
What does everyone think? Anyone whacked out an eye?
I've been wearing them with no problems except losing one in a post-dive goggle flooding incident. (I have since learned to swim immediately to the side and carefully remove the goggles about an inch off the deck while looking for the contact in the goggle lens. My coach thought I was puking the last time that happened. She should have known I'm not the kind to work that hard. Ever. Just trying to save another $80, coach.)
But I wear the rigid, gas permeable variety; I think there are more potential problems with the soft lenses.
I've been wearing them with no problems except losing one in a post-dive goggle flooding incident. (I have since learned to swim immediately to the side and carefully remove the goggles about an inch off the deck while looking for the contact in the goggle lens. My coach thought I was puking the last time that happened. She should have known I'm not the kind to work that hard. Ever. Just trying to save another $80, coach.)
But I wear the rigid, gas permeable variety; I think there are more potential problems with the soft lenses.
