Players who wear glasses!!! Help!

[soldur]

hey i wear glasses to play paintball so that i can see properly. and im having trouble because my glasses fog up really bad and i cant see at all. i bought a vortex fan but it isnt doing the job. what else can i do? can i put no fog spray on my glasses? will it work very well? or will it mess up my glasses? please help.....i cant stand not being able to see when im playing.

[Bonx0007]

Are contacts an option for you?

[brett]

one of my friends uses some anti-fog stuff on his glasses

[RobAGD]

Gouge out your eyes and get new ones :)

To be honest I gave up wearing my glasses. I play Hyperball/Sup Air only so I odnt really NEED mine, it makes life a lot easier but I manage without them.

Look in to Lazer surgery to correct them. Its gotten a lot cheaper and better in the last 8 months.

-Robert

[FooTemps]

Rob, that's sorta unreasonable... Especially for kids like me! My vision sucks and I can't afford laser eye surgery so bah!

Try making your own fan and spraying some anti fog on your glasses.

[DarkRipper]

I've been using the JT inserts for 2 years now... they don't fog with a older model JT fan.

Maybe I'm just lucky.

DR

[BradPalooza]

A couple of ideas:
I use a fan and I've cut a hole in the goggle top underneath the fan so it can circulate more air.

Make sure you aren't wearing something that covers the top of your mask.

Try a sweatband to keep sweat from going down into your mask.

Yes you can use antifog on your glasses. Ask your optometrist what kind they recommend.

[Forgotten-Son]

The long term effects of laser eye sergery is you go blind after about 20 or 30 years..i wear glasses, never had a problem with them.

[Miscue]

I have a problem with this too. I end up not wearing glasses, but my vision suffers a lot. I'm thinking of contacts. Sometimes I'll antifog spray my glasses... mixed results. It can leave a residue.

[kilaueakid]

Try using automotive windshield anti-fog. I have been using Fog-Gone for the last month or so and have pretty good results. If I keep the lenses from touching my eyebrows, it works great. Make sure you get a kind that is safe for plastic.

I used to just not use my glasses, but with this automotive antifog.....why not. I have better depth perception when I can wear my glasses and it has seriously improved my game.

kila

[soldur]

hey guys thanks for all of the options.....its nice to know that there are people out there that i can ask my stupid questions to. i couldnt really find any info anywhere on glasses and fogging so im really glad that all of you offered the help that you did. i jsut bought a jt vortex fan and im probably going to try the automotive anti-fog spray and some sort of headband to keep the sweat away. thanks again for all the help.

[BlueMagRT]

i have scratch resistant (yea right) polymer lenses and i use pmi anti-fog lens cleaner. works great and they don't fog up and it leaves no residue. as for goggles i have v-force they have yet to fog up. so i haven't gotten around to looking into a fan mod for them.

[oldguy]

I am 49 years old overweight and nearsighted. I live in Houston, so the humidity is bad. I had a vortex fan but it was marginal. I cut a small hole under the fan and that helped the air flow. However, the mask is unsafe without the fan installed. The best setup I use, which works great in summer, is this. Buy two CPU 12-V cooler fans and use plastic tie wraps to mount them to the top vent on the mask.

Wire the fans in parallel, and then connect them to two 9 V batteries connected in series. This will apply 18 V to the fans, but does not appear to hurt them. An other option is to get a 12 V battery pack (8 AA batteries) from radio shack. I recommend wiring the fans through a microswitch mounted to the visor.

This setup pushes enough air through the mask that you can feel a breeze in the mask. Wear a sweat band and it will also help. I can play with this setup and it will actually clear the fog off my glasses after I forget to turn the fans ON. You should be able to build this fan setup for about $25.00. Good luck! I know its a pain to play when you can not see well.

[Shaft]

Originally posted by Forgotten-Son
The long term effects of laser eye sergery is you go blind after about 20 or 30 years..i wear glasses, never had a problem with them.

My neighbor sells the laser surgery equipment. He still wears glasses for the reasons mentioned above. Long term results are grim.
There is a new technology due out soon that is supposed to obsolete the previous generations of LASIK (sp?) surgery.

Do get contacts if you can. That has been a tremdous improvement for me.

[joeyjoe367]

Originally posted by Forgotten-Son
The long term effects of laser eye sergery is you go blind after about 20 or 30 years..

haha, I can't help but think of Ralph Wiggam, "Mr. Flanders! You're Blindeded!"