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Oops - I lost a whole day and found myself in hospital!

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BlueBelle Sun 27-Feb-22 13:23:37

My best friend lost a whole 24 hours with no memory at all she had been to the doctors (found a sample bottle on her kitchen table) but had no knowledge of having seen a doctor or getting herself home on two buses, she had eaten a meal and locked up, but not the back door or conservatory which she normally did before going to bed and she hadn’t fed her hedgehog She went to bed and woke up the next day with no memory of the day before at all, before seeing the specimen bottle, she rang the doctors to see why she had it and they made her a new appointment
When she saw (apparently) the same doctor he did a memory test and said well that’s much better than yesterdays !!

Anyway she needed no treatment and has had nothing since then

Yammy Sun 27-Feb-22 13:18:41

Sit back and let them look after you.flowers

Shandy57 Sun 27-Feb-22 13:18:13

So sorry to read this - someone's grandson on another forum recently experienced it too. Take care.

lavendermine Sun 27-Feb-22 13:10:48

Sorry to read this - what a shock. Take care and rest flowers

Grandmashe43 Sun 27-Feb-22 13:09:55

Oh Grannyaxtivist, please start taking care of YOU, your important, xx

nanaK54 Sun 27-Feb-22 13:08:51

No experience - but would like to send kindest thoughts flowers

Doodledog Sun 27-Feb-22 13:05:04

No similar experience, but sending all best wishes for a speedy recovery. Look after yourself and take it easy for a while?

FannyCornforth Sun 27-Feb-22 13:03:35

Oh grannyactivistthanks
You are going through such a tough time at the moment.
Sending you love

grannyactivist Sun 27-Feb-22 12:59:32

I don’t quite know where it went yet, but I’m piecing it together. Apparently I have TGA - Transient Global Amnesia, probably brought on by stress.

Recently I have had even more than my usual heavy load of stress - and the outcome is that I lost yesterday and found myself in the hospital last night chatting to some very nice doctors with no memory of anything leading up to my being there. It’s a very discombobulating experience and has left me physically exhausted and very emotional.

The Wonderful Man has had the scare of his life and is treating me like china - and I’m letting him, so I know I’m not quite myself. Apparently I couldn’t get hold of him yesterday (he was on the allotment) so I called my son who immediately drove over, collected TWM from the allotment - and then followed a discussion between them about where they should take me. TWM said that under normal circumstances they would have asked me! ?

I’ve now been discharged into the care of my GP who is going to see me this week and go through the results of the CT scan that I have no memory of having had. They found ‘calcification’, which has nothing to do with the TGA, but will need further monitoring.

Anyone else had a similar experience?