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Topic: Help! My first black out!!!

Nanbo
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Member # 7382

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I have had LD for years and been on abx for a year and a half. This morning my husband asked me what my mother said on the phone last night. I am completely blank. He said I talked to her and sat downstairs with him while I did. I can't remember one thing aboout last night other than my son came into bed with me and we fell asleep together. He is 6. I have had this intense headache for three days. Could this be related? Is this what they consider a black out or just another memory problem? I am really worried about this because it has never happened to me at this magnatude. I have had short term memory problems but nothing like this!
Someone tell me should I be concerned, or should I just post it up to one more thing this crummy disease can do.
Nancy

Posts: 11 | From East Lyme, CT | Registered: May 2005 | IP: Logged |

brainless
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Member # 6771

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I think it's common but you should ask your LLMD, just to be sure.

Posts: 210 | From lalaland | Registered: Jan 2005 | IP: Logged |

lla2
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Member # 2364

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I don't think total memory loss, or periods where you lose total track of time is common with lyme or coinfecions. At least for so long of a period. I"ve heard of people forgetting their way home etc..but never losing an entire night of their life.

you may want to check with your llmdand have him refer you to a good lyme neurologoist to look into this further.

remember. we tend to forget, not EVERYTHING is lyme related...this may not be.

Lisa

Posts: 4713 | From saunderstown, ri Usa | Registered: Apr 2002 | IP: Logged |

peachsc
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Member # 4969

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Do you take any sleeping meds like Ambien for example?

Ambien would do this to me - I had two abdominal ultrasounds, a picc line put in (I drove myself to the hospital and home), numerous phone conversations, etc. that I have absolutely no memory of.

At the time I was taking 10mg of Ambien before bed. Apparently, a side effect of ambien is amnesia. Once I stopped taking the ambien (and suffered through the rebound insomnia) what I thought was lyme fog and memory problems miraculously stopped.

Lisa is right - we can't pull the lyme card for every bump, twitch, ache, etc. Maybe a good (hopefully lyme literate) neurologist could shed some light on what is going on...

Posts: 79 | From Boston, MA | Registered: Dec 2003 | IP: Logged |

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