Talk:Transient global amnesia

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ADDING MEANINFUL DIALOGUE TO THOSE WHO HAVE SUFFERED TGA EPISODES The 'editing' done to take off my previous 'first person account' leaves NOTHING that a frightened TGA sufferer can relate to.... In my acoount of this life-changing episode I asked for feed back from other who had an epsidoe in the hopes of collecting enough accounts to use in a publication of some kind....there is a dearth of information about this (just ask my own physician brother and son) and I have yet to stumble across any 'blogs' on it. So, desipte the lofty ideals of the "Alawa" user, I am re-inserting a mini version of my episode in the hope more individuals who have suffered this will contact me.

In short, an emotional upset at age 62 with a 'sweet heart swindler' left me homeless, broke, and fragile. (This after a 30 year career as an international businesswoman, a single mom with 3 children). I went to bed at 3:00am after a 4 day marathon legal issue and woke up with spotty short term memory loss. Fortuneately, 2 house hold workers came within minutes, I recognized one and told her I was afraid I had a storke. About 10 hours later, in the hospital surrounded by my family, and with a TGA diagnosis, I started to 'remember' bits and pieces and 3 days later I was released. I have NEVER gained those lost hours back...(from the time I collapsed into the arms of the maid) I had IV lines inserted, lots of tests (all negative)and can't remember anything.

Four other women have written to me since this occurance in 2007. They were all frightened, had virtually no reassurance from their doctors, and could find little or nothing on TGA. It was gratifying for all of us to communicate with someone who had this experience and I suggest that the lofty ideals of Alawa need to be reconsidered if this appears to be the only viaduct for discussion....the first thing I did when I left the hospital was look in Wikipedia, and so did my contacts. Please don't take this 'vital to us' conduit away from us.

So, please, anyone who has experienced this and just wants to talk, contact Jennifer Emery at emerydesign@att.net. I will never dilvulge any personal information about you...and talking to someone with the same fear can ease your concern. All information I posted CAN BE VERIFIED. Write to me and I'll get hospital transcripts for you. Emerydesign (talk) 23:35, 9 February 2010 (UTC)


 * You seem to misunderstand what happened with your post, and what will happen to this one. First, I don't make the rules you are flouting. You can take up policy issues with the Wikipedia community. Perhaps the village pump would be the appropriate venue for that discussion. Second, I did not enforce the rules in this case but did ask for advice as to what should be done, and a very experienced admin stepped in and deleted your comments. So this was not whim or personal interpretation based on my "lofty ideals", but a considered response by a well-respected member of the community whose was fulfilling a duty based on unambiguous policy. Third, the rule you are breaking is for your own protection and the protection of others. You should be grateful, and more mindful. You are not practicing safe behavior on the Internet and you are asking others to practice unsafe behavior as well. Fourth, for anyone who wants to blog about this experience, there is a link for that in the article, via the Washington Post link. I don't know how you missed it. There is also at least one freestanding blog for people who have had TGA, which you can find with a simple Google search, but I did not consider it responsible to include that source as I could not determine its provenance and the content was very thin.  Why don't you start a blog yourself? I am sure it could be helpful to many people, and if you have a group of like-minded people who have had TGA, you are uniquely positioned.  Good luck, and know that you have my sympathy for undergoing such a terrifying experience even if I do not agree with your decision to post your account here, including personal identifying information.Alawa (talk) 19:49, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

updating the entry
I am giving this entry a respectful make-over. I seek to make it fit the MEDMOS and I have more content to add, almost ready. I realize I have not mastered the wiki citation style yet and will try to fix the ones I have created here which err on side of too much information.

Secondly, about the first-person account which, until now, was the sole discussion on this page. I would appreciate guidance from a more experienced editor. I don't mean to be rude, it just is against the rules, and there are blogs now where people can go for this. But who makes the correction? Alawa (talk) 00:11, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

unreliable source?
I see a citation was flagged as possibly unreliable. I think it is wrong to say the source is unreliable, as if the entry was endorsing the claim made by the source. No such endorsement is made;in fact the boundaries of NPOV are pushed in the opposite direction. Please note the content header for the section of the entry where the citation appears specifically identifies the claim as "putative." The purpose of the citation is to show that a putative claim exists, not that it is true. If you want to dispute the claim, I strongly encourage you to find an authoritative source saying the claim is false, and put that into the entry. Otherwise, I suggest this flag on the citation should be removed because the source is completely reliable as documenting the existence of this putative claim. Alawa (talk) 21:54, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Review
This review might be helpful: 10.1016/S1474-4422(09)70344-8 JFW &#124; T@lk  07:44, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Head trauma as a cause?
I don't know if it's the right place for that but I suffered from TGA caused by head trauma. I do suffer from comparatively frequent migraine now but I can't recall a single case from before TGA. Also I'd like to add that the memory of events during the attack came back to me as a dream. I don't know if I actually dreamt it but it feels like it was a dream. 83.20.117.195 (talk) 07:28, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

External links modified
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158.59.127.103 (talk) 23:59, 31 October 2018 (UTC) Facts and Citations: I find the first and second paragraph to be questionable in overall purpose. First saying TGA is a symptom or occurrence that causes loss of all memory, or memories; then later seeming to say something else. When I attempted to check the APA citations, seeing only the little number [1] and [2], I doubted whether all that information came from those books. Proper citations should have the Author's name and year it was published at least. Also the reference material did not say if the author was actually an MD or PHD. (MTW)