Sex can cause amnesia?!
Posted by womenagerie on November 5, 2009
Maybe this won’t be a surprising news to those in the field of medicine, but I was surprised when I read that sex can cause amnesia.
This was reported in the CNN website, what happened was that a couple had sex and after that, the woman seems to be disoriented.
It was one August morning in 2008, as Scott and Alice lay on the bed, the woman turned on the TV and was surprised to find the Olympics. She asked her husband if there is indeed an Olympics going on.
The husband noticed something was wrong, and he asked her questions, like who is their president, to which Alice replied “Bill Clinton.”
Convinced that something indeed was wrong, Scott jumped out of bed and called 911. Alice was rushed to the emergency room.
In the hospital it was diagnosed that Alice had the medical condition called transient global amnesia (TGA) in which patients lose their ability to retain immediate memory.
It was described as a rare neurological condition that usually occured in patients over age 50. Neurologist noted that patients knew their identities, but they couldn’t retain recent memory, like where they were and how they got there.
In the hospital, Alice repeatedly asked how he got there, and he couldn’t believe when Scott told her what happened.
“Let me get this straight. We had sex. I wind up in the hospital and I can’t remember anything?” Alice said. There was a slight pause.
“You owe me a 30-carat diamond!” Alice quipped, laughing. Within minutes, she repeated the same questions in order, delivering the punch line in the exact tone and inflection. It was always a 30-carat diamond
Although it isn’t always sex which causes TGA. It usually occurs after the person engages in strenuous activity — sex being one of them, vigorously exercising, suddenly immersing into icy or hot water, straining to dig a stuck car or even bumping the head.
Patients who have a history of migraines and headaches are more likely to get TGA as some people report getting terrible head pains related to orgasms, called coital headaches
“I remember the previous night going to sleep with a subtle headache and not taking anything for it,” Alice recalled. “And apparently, the next morning, my husband and I had intercourse. From what I found out, there was an orgasm.”
Experts say TGA usually occurs once, however, in some cases, it could become recurrent.
Although she has recovered fully, Alice still cannot remember what happened that morning. The last thing she remembered was going to bed the night before with a slight pain in the right, rear area of her head.
“I was lucky because nothing bad came of it,” said Alice, now 60. “I wasn’t frightened. My husband and family were frightened. I was totally out to lunch.”
But the amnesia incidence, Alice said, had not deterred her sex life, but now, she avoids having intercourse when she has headache. She tells her husband, “So sorry, you can wait.” Until now though, she has yet to receive a 30-carat diamond from Scott.
So what happened then to sex as the best for a woman’s headache?
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