Question abut eyeglasses… really!

Cat Crap used to be good but lately there have been complaints. I wear glasses also so will be interested in what others have used.

I do have the treated lenses. I’m not sure I can say they make a difference over untreated, but they certainly seem to fog less than the glasses I had as a kid. That might be because 80s glasses were comically large. I mainly have trouble when it is humid and I’m exerting myself. I don’t know of any solution but to take off the glasses for a bit. I can still follow a trail without the glasses pretty easily, though I’d never been able to read a map without them.

I use the chest pocket on my shirt a lot. It puts the glasses in a warm spot and clears the condensation pretty quickly.  Also, because my “reading glasses” are to just remove my distance glasses, it’s a place to store them while I’m doing close work.

While there are proprietary anti-fog materials, regular old hand soap – Dove, Ivory, or dishwashing soap – work very well.  I mark an “X” on each side of each lens or smear a wet finger across the soap and then across the lens and then rubbing it clear with a cotton hanky or, better yet, a patch of chamois leather.

Suffered for years I finally found the solution in Lasix surgery but that isn’t for everybody

Like Edward, I went with laser eye surgery and it’s been amazing. I sometimes see older photos of me camping with glasses and cringe a bit.

I’m always afraid there’s a hidden downside to shooting lasers into your eye. Also, as I understand it, when dealing with people who use bifocals, they want to correct one eye so that you can see up close and the other so that you can see distance. That makes me nauseous just to think about.

Like David, the key for me has been to keep the glasses warm while wearing them.  I’ll wear a hat, and pull up the hood on my parka to create a sheltered environment and my hot head and body do the rest.  My glasses get wet but seldom fog up.

When I first get up in the morning and put on cold glasses that have been in a tent pocket they will fog up.  If I’m thinking ahead on that day I’ll put them on while I’m in the sleeping bag to give them some warm up time.

“I understand it, when dealing with people who use bifocals, they want to correct one eye so that you can see up close and the other so that you can see distance.”

They do offer this service, but it seems odd to me also. Instead, I’d get both eyes done for distance and just use reading glasses as needed. They’ll happily do this.

Also, a lot of the older criticisms about laser (like double vision at night) are easily avoided now. That was caused by pupils dilating outside the treated area when it’s dark. Now they treat a larger area on the front of the eye, so that doesn’t happen.

I found the experience of having the front of my eyeballs sliced off and then zapped with lasers to be quite horrible, but it was like 4 minutes and then my eyes work unreal now. Better than 20/20.

This may sound simplistic but it works for me. An optometrist friend that I used to hike with suggested a glass band that that held my glasses really snug on my face. His explanation was that having the lenses really close in kept the temperature of the lenses constant and would greatly reduce or prevent fogging. It took me a bit of time to get used to the way it feels but it works.

When I wake up in the morning and put my cold glasses on they fog up

A couple minutes later they warm up and the fog clears

Last I heard, they still have high incidence of negative side effects when you are as nearsighted as I am.  So I’m just waiting for the day when I get cataracts and can have the whole lens replaced.

There are wipes, sprays and stuff that comes in jars; but I have always liked the wax sticks because they can be stuck anywhere to carry without a problem.  Others don’t like them because they require some elbow grease to apply and even more to wipe off.  Here are links to a few – the third one is closest to the sticks I use, but the first two are of more recent vintage and may work better.  Maybe soap bars are just as good, but the little sticks are handy:

https://www.venasseoptical.com/product/presto-anti-fog-stick/

https://www.hampdon.com.au/anti-fog-wax-clear-em-stick-lens-wax-w-cloth-antif

https://www.airsoftworld.net/storm-clear-anti-fog-sticks.html

DK I was 66:1 Technically legally blind and with coke bottle lenses Nobody can tell you except the surgeon with the million dollar Lasix machine and all the refractive examination equipment. I have no idea what the statistics in other counties are but in Australia the success rate is 99.9% and a failure is not blindness but less than 6:6 corrected vision [ 20:20 in the USA] In this country only one person has gone blind and that was self inflicted because they stopped using the ab drops developed an infection and refused help to go to see a doctor or a hospital

There is however a fairly long period after the surgery where you have to avoid certain sports where contact with the eye or accelerations/decelerations exceeding a Gee is likely. So football/ Karate racquetball and squash etc were out as were roller-coasters and sky diving for 3 to 6 months

I use Cat Crap but find that it needs to be reapplied at least daily.

Well, this may be cheating … But cataract surgery solved it for me and it’s marvelous

I picked up a couple of packets of Foggies at my local bike shop. Tried one tonight. Treated the glasses (which is simply wiping them with the towelette) and went on a 7+ mile run in a steady, light rain, about 50 degrees, give or take.

I run hot, and sweat regardless of how cool I am. I also wear a baseball type cap, so I pretty easily fog up my glasses, especially on a day/night like today/tonight.

My glasses never fogged, which was impressive. They did get ‘fuzzy,’ but I’m not sure if that was from condensation that just never turned to fog, or from the rain hitting the glasses. Could have been either. But the lenses remained ‘clear’, meaning no fog, until I took them off at about mile 6 because it had gotten dark, the road I was running on is pretty heavily trafficked (with cars and trucks doing about 60+), and a shoulder that varied from about a yard and a half wide to a yard wide. The reflection of the vehicle headlights made it hard to see with the glasses on, so I stowed them in my chest pocket.

When I took them out of the pocket at home, inside, there was just a bit of fogging around the edges, but the centers were still fog free. I was impressed.

Will try them again tomorrow, another rain run and a bit longer (perhaps 12 miles or so), but this one all during the day, so I should be able to wear them throughout the run.