My husband had a period of time where he was essentially walking and talking but evidently wasn't forming memories and couldn't recall certain things in the moment. We're going to the hospital again in a couple of days but I wanted to know if anyone else has experienced similar or knew someone who had. I've seen the other similar questions, but wanted personal experiences. Last Friday night we were out with my dad on a cold evening, in a hot car, when my husband said he felt sick. Long story short, he sat outside the shop we were visiting, vomited and then can't remember anything during the next 40 minutes or so. This includes coming into the shop, finding me to tell me he's been sick, handing me his wallet and then five minutes later forgetting he'd done so, not knowing what car we had or the fact that we'd had a new cooker because the old one broke. He became very distressed during this period and kept asking what was wrong with him. He knew who I was, what our dog's name was, where we lived. He was giving short answers when he's normally pretty verbal. He says he started coming round and started to remember things from when we dropped my dad off and I took him to the hospital.
The hospital did ECG, blood tests, a CT scan and took a urine sample. By the time he was in the assessment unit, he was "back in the room" and apart from that period of time, could remember everything, including the car and the cooker, but not much about anything else. The CT came back with no evidence of bleeds, strokes or tumours (I asked) and the only clinical findings to date was evidence of infection in blood and urine. He's had no overt symptoms although he had an upset stomach last week with sickness and was diagnosed with IBS a couple of weeks before that.
I am of course freaking out, although he's fine in himself (he has antibiotics). What happened? Why did he blank out like that? I know you are not a doctor, and as above, we're going back to get further tests in a few days, but the doc we saw said she didn't know what was going on so I am imagining the worst of course. I've consulted Dr Google (yes, I know that's just a daft thing to do) and have read about amnesia and transient delirium and epilepsy and brain tumours and UTIs and am spiralling down the rabbit hole.
So have you had, or known anyone who has had, anything similar happen to them? If so do you know what caused it and if nothing was found, did it recur? Husband is 54, if that's relevant.
The hospital did ECG, blood tests, a CT scan and took a urine sample. By the time he was in the assessment unit, he was "back in the room" and apart from that period of time, could remember everything, including the car and the cooker, but not much about anything else. The CT came back with no evidence of bleeds, strokes or tumours (I asked) and the only clinical findings to date was evidence of infection in blood and urine. He's had no overt symptoms although he had an upset stomach last week with sickness and was diagnosed with IBS a couple of weeks before that.
I am of course freaking out, although he's fine in himself (he has antibiotics). What happened? Why did he blank out like that? I know you are not a doctor, and as above, we're going back to get further tests in a few days, but the doc we saw said she didn't know what was going on so I am imagining the worst of course. I've consulted Dr Google (yes, I know that's just a daft thing to do) and have read about amnesia and transient delirium and epilepsy and brain tumours and UTIs and am spiralling down the rabbit hole.
So have you had, or known anyone who has had, anything similar happen to them? If so do you know what caused it and if nothing was found, did it recur? Husband is 54, if that's relevant.