Memory Loss

@LadyDuck I am so sorry you had to go through that with those horrible men and those lousy headaches..I sure hope your Hubby gets some kind of help for them and all for a purse..horrible

@Rosekitty I had not even the time to be scared, but I was so bad for at least one week after what happened.

@LadyDuck stay that way...don't need you confused or attacked again..

Yes, a perpetual headache from that day. It changes strength and location, so it can't get numb. I think I have had only 4 days without a headache since then, and the accident was in April 1999. Anxiety and stress brings the conditions back. So I had to kill my emotions off to some degree. I had breathing difficulties until I got my stress under control, where I couldn't get a deep breath no matter how hard I tried, and it felt like suffocating. Someone that gets severe asthma attacks said that their attacks are not even close to what I described, so it must be worse than that. Fortunately I don't get them like that anymore, but I had to deal with that for about 6 years. The muscle that controls swallowing is impaired and stops working occasionally, so I end up choking nearly every meal. The last few days it hasn't happened, so I'm hoping this is some kind of improvement. Fortunately the location the food sticks is low enough that I can still breathe. Good thing, I've had food stuck for over an hour before. It can get really painful. Aside from that, I lost some words back then, but I have them back now. Just no memory of ever using them in my past.

@OneOfMany oh i am so sorry..stress is really bad so hopefully you keep your spirits up I'm not certain if you told me, but are you on disability? Hope so..if i get anxiety attacks my throat constricts and i forget to breathe so i kinda have an idea of your throat problem..i know try to deep breathe and avoid stress as much as possible. I had an abusive last relationship that got me that way so i'm happy to just be alone now. Hugs dear friend..off to watch tv and then sleep. talk tomorrow

@Rosekitty Nope, I'm not on disability and had no breaks through college as well. I had a super severe handicap. I forgot one of the affects: I have double vision that I have to control to be single. As soon as I get tired it's double.

Rather than getting the memory back, I got the ability to record the memories. I lost that week of memories, but it probably wasn't anything I wanted to remember.

I'm okay with pain, but if I kept the memory of the accident I probably would be too scared to drive. Although my imagination filled in the gaps.

Well I don't know how I felt about it that week. That entire week was erased after all.

Thanks. My memory is pretty good, though I had to work on my ability to remember names of people when they are introduced to me. It took a lot of time, but now I have a trick I can use. I just associate that person with a face of someone else I'm aware of with the same name.

@lilnana1111 I works really well. I have been teaching it to people and they are getting better at names.

@OneOfMany I'll have to try that trick because I'm terrible at names.