The doctors initially suspected that he’d reacted badly to the anaesthetic, causing a brain haemorrhage – yet they failed to find evidence of injury. So he was discharged with the mystery still hanging over him, and the family moved back to England, where he was referred to the office of Gerald Burgess, a clinical psychologist in Leicester. Scouring the medical literature, he found five similar cases of mysterious me…
> The article title sounds link-baity
It does. We replaced it with the subtitle, which is more neutral.
I have seizures in which I lose as much as a month of memory. The first one that I know about I suddenly found myself driving a car as if the universe sprang into existence that very instant. After a while I decided that I dont have month long seizures rather I have brief seizures in which I lose a month of memory. For this and other reasons I am concerned I have a brain tumour. That would totally suck.
IANAMD. Go to medical doctor and get a NMR. It provides a lot of information and is very little invasive. Perhaps it's not a tumor but a small cerebral stroke or some other cerebral problem. It may be easy to cure with the correct medication + diet. Even if it's a tumor, some of them are easier to treat than others. Meanwhile, driving a car seam to be potentially dangerous.
Agree. While it's possible he's still fully functional and able to drive during these episodes (maybe even likely -- a driver having a full-on seizure or in some kind of black-out would crash pretty quickly) it's not worth taking a chance of killing someone or yourself.
Much like the movie, yes, though in her case it was a daily, not an hourly, thing. It's nice that the film seems to be based on a real-life condition and portrays it fairly accurately.
I mentioned this to a psychologist and she laughed at me very hard. She was a professor and said that she uses the movie 50 First Dates in her class -- by having them write down everything that is wrong. She says it's so horribly inaccurate that it makes for a good long discussion.
Out of curiosity what are some of the things wrong with it?
Local anesthetic is pretty much just a pain killer... it's not supposed to knock you out like GA (general anesthetic). I wonder if the article got the term right.
I mentioned this to a psychologist and she laughed at me very hard. She was a professor and said that she uses the movie 50 First Dates in her class -- by having them write down everything that is wrong. She says it's so horribly inaccurate that it makes for a good long discussion.
Out of curiosity what are some of the things wrong with it?
This page doesn't like the film, and lists some mistakes, but also lists some of the accurate bits.
The doctors initially suspected that he’d reacted badly to the anaesthetic, causing a brain haemorrhage – yet they failed to find evidence of injury. So he was discharged with the mystery still hanging over him, and the family moved back to England, where he was referred to the office of Gerald Burgess, a clinical psychologist in Leicester. Scouring the medical literature, he found five similar cases of mysterious me…
Earlier this year I had a medical procedure and was given "twilight" anesthesia. I was explicitly told "you need to have your spouse or a friend here because we're going to give you instructions afterward and you probably won't remember it". And, sure enough, my memory was pretty much wiped for the hour or so after the event. Later that evening I had a conversation with my wife that went like this: "Um, did you help…
The fact that anesthesiologists apparently deliberately induce amnesia with benzos scares the shit out of me, much more so than full general anesthesia does (which seems backwards, right, because general anesthesia is actually dangerous). Why do they want me not to remember anything? Is it that horrible?
A few comments in this thread mention "genera anaesthesia side effects" and long-term problems. I have never heard of this and a quick wikipedia/google search is not bringing up good source on the topic. Is this substantiated or another "vaccines cause autism" kind of thing?
If no link can be found between the dental surgery and the memory-forming loss, could it be that there is actually no link? Have any other hypotheses been researched besides the surgery?
I mentioned this to a psychologist and she laughed at me very hard. She was a professor and said that she uses the movie 50 First Dates in her class -- by having them write down everything that is wrong. She says it's so horribly inaccurate that it makes for a good long discussion.
Out of curiosity what are some of the things wrong with it?
We didn't get into it deeply, but apparently the biggest issue is that it wouldn't be a daily thing. The recycle period is usually measured in minutes.