I had a brownish red spot that apeared and the doctor said it was just "pigment". Im not entirely satisfied with that explanation. Does that sound normal?
Many things can form over a short period of time. You will find a lot of things that pop up on your body that you were not born with. Skin growths, pigmented spots, etc. This probalbly is not anything to be too concerned about, but getting it looked at by an eye doctor is the best you can do, unless other things develop.
It's flat. The thing that confuses me about it is that I've had it for a few years now, but I haven't always had it. So if it's a cluter of blood vessels, why wasn't it there from birth?
I would just not overdue it with the squats, and just pay more attention to what seems to happen before you notice the red spot. Ag-i-doc is referring to a small raised fleshy growth on the eye. Is your spot flat or raised?
Centrum silver is for people over 50. Just a regular multivitamin should be fine.
I do a whole body workout, including squats and bench press, but have only been doing squats for a few months now. I take protein powder as a supplement but that's about it. I also take a centrum silver at night before bed.
could be an inflamed pinguecula...
Yes, lifting weights can cause stress on the tiny threadlike blood vessles in the eye. Try to notice what you did within an 8 hour time frame before this occurs. Are you doing squats or just bench pressing? How much do you lift? Are you taking any vitamin supplements? Vitamin E can thin the blood. Sometimes you just can't explain why things happen, but if you break it down you might hit on it.
Also very healthy, overall.
I'm 23, never any surgery or eye injuries. I do lift weights and use a computer/read a book quite a bit, but it seems that even when I don't use the computer/read, the spot remains. (I didn't do either of those much this summer, for example. Surely less than 3 hours.)
Do you think that lifting weights could lead to this kind of a condition?
If the spot is concentrated in one area I would probable agree with the cluster of blood vessles theory. The duration of the spot rules out a sub-conjunctival hemorrhage. A more diffuse area with deep redness could be epi-scleritis.
Did you have an injury to the eye? do you read or drive for more than 3 hours at a time? do you lift heavy weights? Are you healthy otherwise? How old are you? Have you ever had any eye surgery?