• dingus@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I agree it’s a bit silly. One thing I was pleasantly surprised about is that you can get off the shelf prescription goggles for myopia, even for quite strong presriptions! I bought some -7 diopter correction goggles on Amazon for about $17. They work great!

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      2 days ago

      ?! What are you using them for? What if your eyes are different (but close enough)? I have many questions.

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        2 days ago

        Sorry if I wasn’t clear…they are swim goggles! My whole life I have always been frustrated that I can’t see shit when wearing swim goggles because obviously I can’t wear the goggles and my glasses at the same time. But I’ve been swimming in these goggles and holy shit! It’s obviously not a perfect match, but I can see so well with them as opposed to not being able to see jack shit! I love it! I can finally see what is going on when swimming in the pool!

        They didn’t have my exact prescription, so I went with a slightly less powerful prescription so it wouldn’t feel too strong. So like my prescription is -7.5 and I went with -7 because they didn’t have the exact number. In the past, I have had corrections where my two eyes are different (like -7 and -6.5 for example). In that case I think it wouldn’t hurt to get either a -7 pair as well, but if it was too uncomfortable you could go for -6 instead. It’s not like a perfect science because it’s not going to match your prescription exactly necessarily.

        Obviously they aren’t going to have any sort of astigmatism correction either if you need that. But I mean since they are basically almost the same price as regular swim goggles, I don’t see a downside to trying them out. I wish I knew about these decades ago lol.