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Total amnesia about and for a few weeks after car accident. Anyone else have this?
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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 674492" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>You are not alone. Illness can cause this also. A few yrs back I had a long migraine and got a flu type bug at the same time. I was unable to keep my medications down so I was literally cold turkey on my pain medications AND a seizure type medication that is used for nerve pain. My husband called an ambulance cause I would not say anything and just moaned even when not asked a question.</p><p></p><p>At the hospital they did a tox screen and the phenergan and benadryl that I was taking, combined iwth the seizure medication showed up as meth. Rather than call my pain doctor, who would have explained that the medication combo gives a false positive for meth, the doctor decided that I was a meth addict and was abusing my other pain medications. So in addition to losing 2 days of my life, I woke up in restraints with everyone at the hospital trying to get me to tell them where my meth stash was and did I smoke it or inject it. The doctor refused to speak to me for the next 2 day that she held me hostage. I had to do a screening iwth a psychiatric orderly (NOT a nurse or a doctor - literally an orderly with a list of questions to ask me) to see if I tried to kill myself. </p><p></p><p>I only got out because I convinced the night nurse to call my regular doctor. That was entertaining because she came up the next morning and chewed out the doctor right in front of my door. It is apparently a breach of medical ethics to not call the patient's reg doctor and if that reg doctor is local then care has to be given to the reg doctor, which did not happen. I do have only spotty memories of that time, so I am sure I missed things. </p><p></p><p>It is incredibly common to lose memories after an accident, esp with a head injury. I wanted to remember everything that I lost and felt very unsettled by the amnesia for quite some time.</p><p></p><p>(((((hugs)))))</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 674492, member: 1233"] You are not alone. Illness can cause this also. A few yrs back I had a long migraine and got a flu type bug at the same time. I was unable to keep my medications down so I was literally cold turkey on my pain medications AND a seizure type medication that is used for nerve pain. My husband called an ambulance cause I would not say anything and just moaned even when not asked a question. At the hospital they did a tox screen and the phenergan and benadryl that I was taking, combined iwth the seizure medication showed up as meth. Rather than call my pain doctor, who would have explained that the medication combo gives a false positive for meth, the doctor decided that I was a meth addict and was abusing my other pain medications. So in addition to losing 2 days of my life, I woke up in restraints with everyone at the hospital trying to get me to tell them where my meth stash was and did I smoke it or inject it. The doctor refused to speak to me for the next 2 day that she held me hostage. I had to do a screening iwth a psychiatric orderly (NOT a nurse or a doctor - literally an orderly with a list of questions to ask me) to see if I tried to kill myself. I only got out because I convinced the night nurse to call my regular doctor. That was entertaining because she came up the next morning and chewed out the doctor right in front of my door. It is apparently a breach of medical ethics to not call the patient's reg doctor and if that reg doctor is local then care has to be given to the reg doctor, which did not happen. I do have only spotty memories of that time, so I am sure I missed things. It is incredibly common to lose memories after an accident, esp with a head injury. I wanted to remember everything that I lost and felt very unsettled by the amnesia for quite some time. (((((hugs))))) [/QUOTE]
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