Opening eyes in a pool?

Question

When I'm in a pool and I open my eyes, it's all blurry and it hurts. It hurts even when I'm not moving. is there a way to stop those?

Answer 1

i have been an active swimmer since i was two and i used to always open my eyes under the surface. about 12 years later, here i am telling you to WEAR GOGGLES!! i now have to use glasses (which i dearly hate!) as a result of not using goggles.

i recently purchased a pair of Dolphino goggles, they are comfortable and easy to tighten/loosen, but i would not recommend them because they fog up and scratch too easily. some i would recommend are:

~Remora III from Nike
~Sengar Mirror from Speedo
~Aqua Racer Mirror from Speedo
~GCG from Speedo
~Sniper from View

if you are like me and wear glasses, you can also buy goggles with prescription. right now i am waiting for my prescripton goggles, which are Aqua Racer Opticals from Speedo.

if your goggles seem to fog up, you can buy "anti-fog" to ease the fog.

to find some really good goggles and other pool stuff, try www.djsports.com! they ship to your house and have some pretty cool goggles (including the ones i mentioned earlier).

if, however, you do not find a pair of goggles that you like, two things that will help ease the pain are putting less chlorine in your pool and using eye drops.

eye drops can be found in your local drugstore for as little as $2. Visine seems to work the best, and it comes in different "styles," such as seasonal relief and advanced relief. right now i use advanced relief after the pool, just in case i get any chlorine in my eyes (if my goggles leak). i would definatly reccomend advanced relief, it leaves my eyes cool and refreshed and keeps redness and pain at ease.

well, i hope this helped!
alli

Answer 2

Either wear goggles or don't put so much chlorine in the pool. I've gotten used to it over time and can even open my eyes in public pools like the YMCA's, but only for swimming about a half hour, then I have to get out. It is probably to much chlorine in the water, or it could even be the pH in the pool being too far off.
No matter what other people say, do not use contacts! They are really easy to lose in the pool. I lost one the first time I tried swimming with them in.

Answer 3

I am currently taking swimming lessons. At first the water did not burn my eyes. After the third lesson and a good "rain", the water began to burn my eyes. The instruct er stated that it was because the rain messed up the ph balance in the water. She suggested goggles. Try them a few days, but on most days the water should be the same ph as your eyes. If you wear contacts or glasses the water could also burn your eyes.

Answer 4

Your eyes hurt because there's chlorine in the pool water. There's nothing you can do to stop it from hurting if you don't wear goggles.

Answer 5

Get some proper fitting swim goggles. Go to a sports store that sells them. They should let you try them on before you buy. Make sure that the goggles have suction around your eyes WITHOUT having the strap around your head. The strap is not for suction....when you find the ones that fit right buy them! Mine have lasted over two years...it's a bargain!!

Answer 6

Kmm:

Wear goggles my friend!

That's what they are for -- protecting your eyes. Chlorine can kill all kinds of "stuff" in the water that is bad for you, but chlorine will also damage your eyes. Just pick up a pair of inexpensive goggles from WalMart or KMart & try it out!

Keep Swimming!

Hagen Das

Answer 7

It's the effect of the chlorine in the water, and the only way to stop the discomfort is to wear goggles.

Answer 8

um no, but theres an invention called goggles DUH!!!!!!!! when i was little i used pretend i was a mermaid and it hurt too. But DONT open ur eyes in the pool, it's filled with clorhine, and human waste sometimes, and this can damage ur eyes, especially the clorhine. I dont know how to spell that!

Answer 9

first of all if you wear contasts or glasses this will happen since you dont have 20-20 vision. but usually this indicates your pool has a high ph level, in other words too much clorine. if they get bloodshot this will prove the too much chlorine theory. also, if your water is dirty or the pools backround cood do this.

i wood suggest slowly doing it more and more and it wont matter how much chemicals are in there because you are used to it, thats wat i did...
hope to help =] !!

Answer 10

to much chlorine in the pool. where goggles when going under.