Eyeglass Wearers, Do You Have Problems With Your Lenses in Cold, Snowy or Rainy Weather?

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This is a question for those who wear glasses everyday regularly. Do you have issues in cold, snowy or rainy weather with your lenses fogging up on you, getting blurred with raindrops or snowflakes? If so, do you have any tips to share about how to avoid these problems?

I only wear sunglasses, but eyeglasses may be in my future. With my sunglasses in the cold, I've had problems with some fogging of the lenses, also usually just take them off and put them in my pocket if it starts to rain or snow. Today it was light snow, no sun out, but a little bit light due to the snow on the ground. I decided not to wear my sunglasses simply because I knew the lenses would soon be wet with snow, and I'd be wiping them on my shirt or putting them in my pocket.
 

I've been wearing prescription glasses since my teens and I think all glasses wearers experience the same problems that you've mentioned SB......maybe you should look into getting a pair of these. :)
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:lol: IKE! I don’t have any tips or secrets to help with that Seabreeze. I’ve been wearing prescription glasses since my late 40’s
My eyes are very sensitive to sunlight so I have to wear sunglasses with fresh snow or the reflection is too glaring. I take one of those special eye glasses cloths. They have good ones at Costco for a decent price.
 

I hate when that happens. It is worse when I go from my cool house or car out into the heat, and they fog up. I wish they made eye glass cleaner that serves as a defogger or water repellant. All we can do, I guess, is carry those handy dandy packets with the glass wipes in them.
 
Been wearing them since age 12 and have same problems. I use a spray I got at the eye doctors to clean them. One small bottle lasts forever. I wear the progressive ones so I don't have to buy separate ones for the sun. More expensive but cheaper than buying 2 pair.
 
Thanks everybody for your replies. :) Ike, those look perfect, love 'em! :magnify:

Marie, I thought they might have something like that, something that would be a defogger or water repellent, or homemade version that someone uses that works. Terry, do the progressive ones get dark enough in bright sun and are they anti-glare...glass lense? Also, do they get light enough to suit you indoors when you come in from outside?
 
I've been wearing glasses since my teens and have no answers. I just make sure I have tissues with me so I can wipe them once I get in a building. I think what I hate more is when they fog up while I'm pouring hot steamy liquid into a colander or the sink. Like draining spaghetti.
 
Progressive lenses are great for indoors and outdoors. They change but they change slowly.
Sometimes I wished that I’d gotten progressive lenses again. I got prescription sunglasses but didn’t get the reading prescription added because I didn’t think I’d need it. Now if I have to look at my phone to read a map I can’t without switching glasses and it’s a real PITA. Something to consider but your eyes aren’t as bad as mine yet.
 
Does anyone use special glasses for using the computer, or are you reading prescriptions enough for computer screens?
 
When I'm outdoors in the rain or snow, I just wear a baseball cap, and that keeps most of the "droplets" off my glasses. "Fogging" always occurs when I'm outdoors in cold weather for any length of time, then go indoors....the indoor humidity fogs the glasses for a few seconds until they warm up, so I just take them off, and wipe them with a clean tissue, and within a few seconds they are good to go.
 
At Times, they will fog up in hot humid weather. For years, when I delivered bread, my glasses would fog up every time I went into a store to make a delivery. Just part of wearing glasses.
I use a soft tissue to clean mine. Don’t use a tissue with lotion in it. Messy.
At times I have had floaters. My doc said it’s just a way an eye cleans itself. Sounded weird to me though.
 
Keesha said:
Progressive lenses are great for indoors and outdoors. They change but they change slowly.
Sometimes I wished that I’d gotten progressive lenses again. I got prescription sunglasses but didn’t get the reading prescription added because I didn’t think I’d need it. Now if I have to look at my phone to read a map I can’t without switching glasses and it’s a real PITA. Something to consider but your eyes aren’t as bad as mine yet.
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I think you might mean transition lenses, rather than progressive? A transition lens darkens in sunlight, acting as sunglasses when the light is bright. A progressive lens is one that has a smooth and line free transition for vision at different distances. I have progressive lenses...I can see close up through the lower part, and at a distance through the upper part, but with no hard line delineating the two which is what you get with an actual bi-focal lens.

I wore contacts for a few years, but I've been wearing glasses for the last 8, since I had surgery to remove a cancerous growth from my lower left eyelid. They had to remove 90% of my lower lid to get the entire growth, and as a result contacts won't stay in that eye.

My eyes are sensitive to sunlight but still I decided against transition lenses because I do a lot of driving and the lenses won't darken in the car because of the filtering effect of the windshield. I have prescription sunglasses which I wear when I'm going to be out in the sun for a long time, like at the pool or the beach, or when we go to Disneyworld or Land or other outdoor things. I wear them on the Harley when we're touring around. Stuff like that. But I do a lot of driving for for work, and I'm in and out of the car, and it drives me nuts to be constantly switching from my prescription sunglasses to my regular ones. Instead I invested $20 at my local Walgreens and bought a specialized sunglasses that are designed to fit snugly OVER my prescription glasses. I have a pair I keep in my car, and a pair in Ron's, so they're always available. Works like a charm.

My biggest beef about foggy lenses is when I take something out of the oven, or check what's in there to see if it's done. My glasses fog up instantly!!
 
SeaBreeze said:
Does anyone use special glasses for using the computer, or are you reading prescriptions enough for computer screens?
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I do a lot of computer work, and I also read a lot, so I have a pair of prescription reading/computer glasses for just that purpose. They're single vision rather than the progressive lens that are in my all-purpose glasses. I actually have several pair...one pair that stays by my computer, one that's always in my purse, and a third pair that's in the computer backpack I use to carry my laptop and peripherals around, to clients, over to Ron's etc.

Which brings me to this question: Do any of you order your glasses online? I've been doing it for a few years now. I get my eyes examined once a year at my eye doctor's office, but I don't buy glasses from there because those retail stores charge so much!!! I get two prescriptions from him...one for the progressive lens, and one for reading/computer glasses. Then I go online and order the frames and lenses that I want at a GREATLY reduced cost!!
 
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