pam_in_sc wrote:
Matt O'Toole wrote:
Contact lenses! Or LASIK! When your glasses are so covered you
can't see through them, taking them off is the only solution.
However, it has to be really wet for this to happen.

I never could bear the thought of contact lenses, and my
nearsightedness is still getting worse (sphere in the worse eye is
now -7, which means my uncorrected vision is roughly 20-700) even as
I need stronger bifocals. Not to mention astigmatism (-2.5). I know
they now have contact lenses that can handle astigmatism, but after
having the world slope up on one side for two days when the axis of
my astigmatism prescription was changed, the idea of something that
could shift in position even a little sounds awful.

I can see through the water drops, perhaps a little better than
through fogged glasses, but it just isn't fun to ride that way.

Pam

I'm not going to /advocate/ LASIK here (and it's clearly not
sci.med.vision), but . . .

You /could/ have custom LASIK to alleviate your astigmatism (about
perfectly, btw), along with about /half/ of your myopia, then wear a simple
pair of disposable contact lenses to correct the remaining nearsightedness.

Without the astigmatic correction, small movements in the contact lenses
wouldn't induce blur.

Just my $0.02. Ride safely!