swimming w/o goggles
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NotAsFast posted 1 year ago.
Ask at the pool is they have a spare set. There is always a set in the Lost and Found.
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azmojo804 posted 1 year ago.
the chlorine hasn't bothered me as much lately, unless they just shocked or re-chlorinated the pool. But, if you're worried, work on your straight swimming by just closing your eyes...and open if you need to...that way it minimizes the amount that you get, to an extent. :)
Definitely have the gym check for a spare set or lost and found as NotAsFast mentioned.
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kylie posted 1 year ago.
I won't swim without them -- once as a teenager I was playing in the pool and around it all day, and not even under water all that much. And by the evening the chlorine or another chemical had clouded the lens in my eye (I'm forgetting the technical term for it, but if you looked at my eye sideways with a little light you could see it was clouded over). Family friend doc checked it and said it should just clear up overnight, so never huge worry with it. But the cloudy vision was scary and no fun, so now I'm a bit afraid to have it happen again.
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TryScott posted 1 year ago.
A few weeks ago I took my daughter to the kiddie pool, and I ended up playing the part of a water monster that hunted little toes. My vision was blurry for about 36 hours and the eyes felt weird.
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beads1985 posted 1 year ago.
You could work on your breast stroke maybe and keep your face out of the water?
Or go to your local sporting goods store and get another pair of goggles.
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Socket posted 1 year ago.
I can't open my eyes in any kind of water and I swam this weekend without goggles to make sure I work on my swimming in a straight line. Just keep one arm out in front of your head as a wall sensor.
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Socket posted 1 year ago.
beads1985 wrote:
You could work on your breast stroke maybe and keep your face out of the water?
Or go to your local sporting goods store and get another pair of goggles.
And do it the easy way? pffft. Whatever ;-)
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beads1985 posted 1 year ago.
kylie wrote:
I won't swim without them -- once as a teenager I was playing in the pool and around it all day, and not even under water all that much. And by the evening the chlorine or another chemical had clouded the lens in my eye (I'm forgetting the technical term for it, but if you looked at my eye sideways with a little light you could see it was clouded over). Family friend doc checked it and said it should just clear up overnight, so never huge worry with it. But the cloudy vision was scary and no fun, so now I'm a bit afraid to have it happen again.
Take a look at your swim goggles after using them for a month. The chlorine makes the lens cloudy. If you expose your eyes they can be slightly damaged by the chlorine. Fortunately the tissue that makes up your eye can heal rapidly.
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iamtb13 posted 1 year ago.
beads1985 wrote:
Take a look at your swim goggles after using them for a month. The chlorine makes the lens cloudy. If you expose your eyes they can be slightly damaged by the chlorine. Fortunately the tissue that makes up your eye can heal rapidly.
Is there anyway to prevent this or remove the clouds from your goggles once it happens?
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beads1985 posted 1 year ago.
iamtb13 wrote:
beads1985 wrote:Take a look at your swim goggles after using them for a month. The chlorine makes the lens cloudy. If you expose your eyes they can be slightly damaged by the chlorine. Fortunately the tissue that makes up your eye can heal rapidly.
Is there anyway to prevent this or remove the clouds from your goggles once it happens?
It will help if you rinse your goggles right after you swim in cool fresh unchlorinated water, but it will eventually cloud them and as far as I know it is not preventable or reversible.
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jtrimom posted 1 year ago.
DON't DO IT! Last week, I swam in a chlorinated pool- getting in my long swim for the week- I was in a rhythm, but water kept coming into my goggles. I was feeling so good and strong, I didn't fix it. I got an eye infection (an ocular virus) or somesuch, the opthalmologist said...he said he saw a whole swim team at his office a while back with it...he said most likely it's from the pool!
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fpugsley posted 1 year ago.
kylie wrote:
I won't swim without them -- once as a teenager I was playing in the pool and around it all day, and not even under water all that much. And by the evening the chlorine or another chemical had clouded the lens in my eye (I'm forgetting the technical term for it, but if you looked at my eye sideways with a little light you could see it was clouded over). Family friend doc checked it and said it should just clear up overnight, so never huge worry with it. But the cloudy vision was scary and no fun, so now I'm a bit afraid to have it happen again.
I hate when that happens! and it hurts like crazy for a good 6 hours.
And remember that Chlorine plus water equals acid. I dont like putting my eyes in acid.
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theShiba posted 1 year ago.
jtrimom wrote:
DON't DO IT! Last week, I swam in a chlorinated pool- getting in my long swim for the week- I was in a rhythm, but water kept coming into my goggles. I was feeling so good and strong, I didn't fix it. I got an eye infection (an ocular virus) or somesuch, the opthalmologist said...he said he saw a whole swim team at his office a while back with it...he said most likely it's from the pool!
If there was a virus floating around you likely would have gotten it with or without the goggles. I'm sure it didn't take very much for this virus to infect you, and you probably could have infected yourself just by rubbing your eyes. Eyes are wide open for infection, and it's pretty easy to spread it.
Either way, I wouldn't swim without goggles just because it's not that much fun to have my eyes closed...
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brittda posted 1 year ago.
theShiba wrote:
jtrimom wrote:DON't DO IT! Last week, I swam in a chlorinated pool- getting in my long swim for the week- I was in a rhythm, but water kept coming into my goggles. I was feeling so good and strong, I didn't fix it. I got an eye infection (an ocular virus) or somesuch, the opthalmologist said...he said he saw a whole swim team at his office a while back with it...he said most likely it's from the pool!If there was a virus floating around you likely would have gotten it with or without the goggles. I'm sure it didn't take very much for this virus to infect you, and you probably could have infected yourself just by rubbing your eyes. Eyes are wide open for infection, and it's pretty easy to spread it.
Either way, I wouldn't swim without goggles just because it's not that much fun to have my eyes closed...
And on that note, I would not "borrow" a pair from lost and found. Do you want to risk pink eye or any other funky infection??Worked at a pool in my younger years.. they are a haven for disease from athletes foot to plantar warts to ocular diseases...ISH. Maybe if I were at a race and forgot my pair...but only then
Hey Kids - I might get the chance to sneek in a rare mid-week lap swimming session tonight, but alas I am unprepared and w/o my gear. Has anyone swam recently w/o goggles (in a pool w/ chlorine). It has been so long since I've done it, I can't remember if I am signing up for misery or not.
Thanks!