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Pain from eyewear
Quite often during a ride my sunglasses start to give me pain on both sides of my head behind my ears. The only way to alleviate the pain is to remove my eyewear, which obviously I'd prefer not to do. I have tried different glasses and some are worse than others in the rate at which the pain starts. The ones I have at the moment have the lightest fit but still cause problems on rides more than 90 minutes or so long.
Anyone else get this and any ideas what this pain is and any thoughts on how to get rid?
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Could you not place the end(s) of the arms in a cup of warm water then (carefully) bend them outwards to alleviate the pressure?
Think I'll give that a go as they are detachable arms and cheap to replace if it all goes horribly wrong!
I have this quite often, on and off the bike. I just slightly change the angle the glasses are at, therefore changing where the ends are resting, this is easier to do with some than others. I have a large head and some are worse than others; the ones with curved sides as they dig in more. Just have to also accept some glasses won't fit me.
I also find that glasses which have been fitted by an optician are usually more comfortable. A cheap service to alleviate miles of pain!
It sounds like your glasses are too tight. I had similar pain when (and please don't laugh at this) my daughter made me wear her Minie Mouse ears at Disneyland. I forgot I was wearing them and after a time started getting a sore head. Eventually I took the ears of and the pain went. The ears were pressing my head in the same place as the legs of glasses sit and I've had the same problem when wearing glasses which are too tight.
I may be stuffed then as the Madison D'arcs I wear are pretty cheap, lightweight and don't feel tight...perhaps I'm just unfortunately sensitive in that spot!
I got a pair of glasses from Decathlon with interchangable lenses which might do the trick as they rubber bits on the end of the legs are very flexible and don't really dig in. Orao Arroyo they are called.
I'll have a look, cheers.
I've had a similar pain but later traced it to my helmet being too tight, so dialled it back a notch and the pain went away. Used the same glasses ever since, and no pain.
Sounds like we have the same thing as looseneing straps does help for a couple of minutes.. after that it's remove glasses or suffer... wonder what it is?
I've had similar from some pairs of sunglasses. I've not had this problem since I started having to wear prescription eyewear. Having an optician fit them does make a difference.
Some sunglasses have hinges that are spring-loaded, with a little outward movement to account for head size. I have these types of hinges on a pair of Ray Ban Wayfarers for instance, which made them a first choice for conversion to prescription use by my optician when I went in for some new varifocals. Some brands other than Ray Ban also offer this type of hinge as well so have a look for it.
I've found the best I can get is from a set of Madison D'arcs.... simply becasue, being quite cheap, they do not have very robust arms and do flex out a bit.
took mine to my optician ... she then "fitted" them for me - tenner well spent