Ever experienced memory loss?

A few years back, when I was still attending Kung-Fu, I was attending one of my weekly sparring sessions. Most of the time we're paired off and allowed to free-fight until time stops. As one of the biggest guys in class, I'm usually paired off against even bigger guys. Not that I get scared, but usually you know you're in for some trouble when you're taking on someone bigger than 6'4.

We're required to wear sparring gear on our limbs and heads, but being the cheap bastard that I was am, I would merely make use of the free available gear, which resulted in a headgear that lacked a strap. I figured it wouldn't be a problem, since no one would be strong enough to knock me out. I do a pretty good job of protecting my face (though not so much the stomach), so I was confident.

I didn't factor in the possibility of losing my footing, though. After some heated punches and kicks, one blow causes me to trip and land on my back. Wouldn't be the first time, but somewhere between the falling and the landing, my strapless headgear came off.

And so the back of my head crashes on the carpeted floor. The pain wasn't too extreme, but my entire body vibrated as a sort of ripple-effect. My eyes went blurry, but after the last bit of bodily waves reverberated, I was able to get back up, only slightly dizzy but no major damage.

I continued the class as normal, doing the excersise runs that follow the free sparring. Did my jumping jacks, situps, and so forth without any problems. Class soon ends, and I'm pretty tired, so I take a quick sit in the bench while I wait for my ride home.

And then, for a few minutes I sit there, silently with my head down. I can imagine the perplexed look in my face as I began to concentrate to no avail, realizing to myself:

I just forgot everything I did after the fall.

The little excersises I did after my head injury all went blank. If I tried to think and recall what I did, I end up with a major headache. I was pretty scared, and so were my parents when I told them about what happened. Even now, while I did recall some of my lost memory, I still get a minor migraine if I try to focus any further.

So, anyone here ever experienced memory loss of any kind? Ever had the full blown amnesia, where you don't even know who you are (I wonder if amnesiacs remember being amnesiacs?)? Dig deep into your repressed psyches and post here.

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I experience memory loss every Sunday morning. After a night of proper drinking your short-term memory quickly takes a backseat to severe inebriation.

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uh if you forgot about it.. how do you remember doing all those sit-ups and things >_>?
I have bunch of memory holes from drinking times and the more i try to remember i get similar headache and just get confused.
I got hit once in boxing sparring where i got stunned and it went blurry and the next thing i remember is standing in the corner during round break, Since it was in the middle of a round im guessing ive "lost" one min of my life .

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A few years back, when I was still attending Kung-Fu, I was attending one of my weekly sparring sessions. Most of the time we're paired off and allowed to free-fight until time stops. As one of the biggest guys in class, I'm usually paired off against even bigger guys. Not that I get scared, but usually you know you're in for some trouble when you're taking on someone bigger than 6'4.

just doing that joke now so no one else has to. although this is more like deja-vu, I suppose.

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if you forgot about it.. how do you remember doing all those sit-ups and things >_>?

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Even now, while I did recall some of my lost memory, I still get a minor migraine if I try to focus any further.

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After I turned 35 I started noticing that I wasn't as articulate as I used to be. I sometimes have trouble thinking of the right word to use in a sentence, even when it's a simple word. Also, I remember things in my childhood vividly, but don't ask me what I had for dinner the night before last because I won't be able to tell you.

Getting old sucks.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Nothing really caused by anything external, but my long term memory is really shot. I don't remember much of my childhood, nor much of my adolescent years. Even things I've done a few days ago are fairly obscure. A lot of the lost information from the more distant past I've actually tried to suppress and have actually forgotten. Sappy woe-is-me history which I do not care for.

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That's probably without doubt my biggest fear with growing older. It frustrates me how my parents can't even recall a conversation 30 minutes ago, nevermind last week. Although I am proud to say I have a pretty excellent memory. I've shocked people when I recall nearly-exact conversations that I've had more than 5 years ago.

This, along with eyesight are the two things I hope I won't lose when I reach old age.

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Does continuously forgetting faces and names count?

I am always forgetting who someone is. I can see someone in class on Mondays and Wednesdays and know "hey, that's so-and-so" but if I see them in a different setting without properly getting acquainted with them, I'll totally blank when I see them.

I also forgot most of the people that I went to high school with. I still remember the girls I obsessed over, sure, but as far as everyone else...no dice.

I'm wondering if my intake of aspartame (via diet soda) has anything to do with it.

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Only once. During one hockey game I was pushed headfirst into the boards and it killed. I sat there for a while, I remember talking to the referee and our trainer who came out to look at me and then I obviously went to the changeroom and took off all my equipment then left because the next thing I knew I was sitting in my car and my dad was driving us home. I don't remember getting off the ice, taking my stuff off and leaving the arena and I still dont, it just kinda didn't happen as far as I know.

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When racing a car, I hit a guy, and don't remember how I ended up facing in the opposite direction from the way I hit the guy. It happened so fast, and thank god for the safety equipment of these days...

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My memory has always been terrible. Actually, I went travelling during my summer vacation and only remember bits and peices of it. Which is why I write journals now to keep track of what I do. Otherwise when I try to remember what happens my mind just goes blank. But this has always been the same for me, I didn't bump my head as a child or anything. Just terrible memory.

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I blanked out maybe two months of my childhood when I was six or seven - I was in the hospital with scabies (and complications thus), perpetually quarantined. My last psych told me that I'd probably repressed the memories... I can remember everything prior to that perfectly lucidly, but I seriously have no recollection of anything from March to May that year. At all.

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Maybe once or twice from drinking... once was pretty bad... I remember drinking some SoCo-Limes and some vodka... then we took a few shots of 99 Bananas... after the 5th one (the last one I remember) of the 99 Bananas, I didn't remember a thing. Which was scary cause I was talking to a girl how really liked me and wanted to hook up, but I wanted nothing to do with her. Luckily, my friends told me that, thankfully, nothing happened. The next thing I recall, I was hugging the bowl and swearing I would never drink again. I still drink, but I don't get black-out drunk anymore... that’s just scary to lose time like that.

I was speaking idiomatically.

the only real memory loss I can recall was the night my buddies and I where drunk at a party in collage, that was the only time I was really plastered

How ya doing, buddy?

It almost sounds like you got a concussion. Have you gone to the doctor yet? Headaches and memory loss are two common sypmtoms of someone who has suffered a concussion. You should have gone to the hospital immediately.

FELIPE NO

When I forget something it is normally something that I have just done. It happens all the time, I can do something and within 5 seconds of doing it I completely forget whether or not I have done it, so I have to go back and check that I have done what I mean to.

Getting old sucks.

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I don't remember! hahahahah... ... :|

I'm such an idiot when it comes to remembering things, but at least I have come to terms with it and figured ways to deal with it. Now I write down EVERYTHING I need to remember, no matter how small or big either on my cell phone or in this notebook I keep with me. The moment I think, "I don't need to write it down, I can remember it." I immediately counter with "We are men of action, lies do not become us."

Jam it back in, in the dark.

twice. once when I fell down the stairs, but I was too young to remember that (no pun intended) and about two years ago. That I remember, and it was horrible

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It is actually a reacurring(sp) thing with me. I have seizures and since my last one I cant seem to remeber anything in the short term. My doctors think that it is from when I hit my head the few times I fell down while seizing. It is really bad too. I actually tend to forget something I was just talking about if I get slightly off topic. it is really annoying at times.

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I find it hard to recall specifics of my day, but then I've always had a terrible memory anyway. For instance, I couldn't tell you what I was up to a week ago without some serious effort of thought put into it. I've only had two serious memory loss incidents in my life so far; one of them was gin-fuelled and not nearly as scary as the other, which had nothing to do with any kind of alcohol or drug. I just blanked an hour of my life, even though I was told I was awake, standing up and breathing, just not moving.

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My worst case was in grade 12 during the last semester, we used the same locks since grade 9...one morning went to my locker and I forgot the combination. I tried to remmeber, but couldn't even get any numbers into my head. I went back to hang out with some friends (we were on spare) after a bit I went back, tried again and somehow I got it after awhile. I oput my bag in, thought holy crap that was weird. Then after spare, went back to get my stuff for class, forgot the combination again! The same friggenlock for 4 years, adn I forget it last semester of grade 12. I was actaully pretty scared, forgetting that I thoughti t'd lead to me forgetting EVERYTHING.

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