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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's.

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Speaker 2: I had lunch with a friend a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: and she just told the most extraordinary story. It's a

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Speaker 2: scary medical story, sudden temporary memory loss. It's called transient

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Speaker 2: global amnesia. She lost her memory for twelve hours after

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Speaker 2: an intense orgasm. She's made a podcast about this experience,

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Speaker 2: and she's dedicated to finding out more about this mystery illness.

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Speaker 1: Dasha Ross, Hello, good morning, Amanda.

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Speaker 2: How are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm great.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, let's start back at where it began, Sunday,

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Speaker 2: March the first.

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Speaker 3: What happened?

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Speaker 1: What happened? Indeed, that's the question I'm still asking myself

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Speaker 1: because I can't remember anything. And so in making this podcast,

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Speaker 1: I had to go back and talk to people who

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Speaker 1: are closest to me to ask what happened and what

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Speaker 1: would see. And that was a delicate process because call

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Speaker 1: has several recognizable triggers, but I didn't have any of

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Speaker 1: them except for one, and that was sex. There are

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Speaker 1: other triggers like doing a big workout and a gym

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Speaker 1: or going for a swim in cold water. Well I

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Speaker 1: hadn't done either of those, but I had been with

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Speaker 1: my boyfriend that afternoon, So I had to delicately go

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Speaker 1: back and inquire, darling, did we make love that afternoon

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Speaker 1: that we were together? So it was kind of very

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Speaker 1: embarrassing it and rather tricky question to say, did the

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Speaker 1: earth move from me? Because I just can't remember if

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Speaker 1: it did or not?

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Speaker 3: And how did he feel about that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Proud, I imagine.

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Speaker 3: Do you know?

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Speaker 1: I think he was a little taken aback, And I

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Speaker 1: didn't really go into detail. I was on a mission

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Speaker 1: to find out what had happened, and so to be honest,

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Speaker 1: I didn't ask him how do you feel about that?

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Speaker 1: And I didn't ask him how do you feel that

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Speaker 1: you're so good as a lover that you actually blew

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Speaker 1: my brain? Really?

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Speaker 2: So what have you discovered?

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Speaker 1: But I have talked about that in the podcast, and I, well, look,

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Speaker 1: we we haven't. We have a nice relationship. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: he'll be very understanding. He's a reasonable, you know, twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one man.

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Speaker 2: So to have all this delayed out there, I mean

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Speaker 2: it's something you know, blew your brains out, as you said,

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Speaker 2: so you were sure what had happened to Amanda.

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Speaker 1: I'm going on national radio to say I lost my

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Speaker 1: mind because of sex, what can possibly go?

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Speaker 2: So you something happened and you said that. The people

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Speaker 2: around you thought maybe you'd had a stroke because you

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Speaker 2: and so you had to piece together what all this

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Speaker 2: was about.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I don't remember any of it. I mean, and

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Speaker 1: basically what happens with There are few significant indicators of

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Speaker 1: a transient global amnesia attack, and the first and most

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Speaker 1: obvious that people repeat themselves all the time. So what

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Speaker 1: set off alarm? Well, first for my friends, who I

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Speaker 1: called four times in ten minutes saying, am I need

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Speaker 1: to be coming to dinner tonight? Yes, they said the

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Speaker 1: first time. By the fourth time, they phoned my daughter

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Speaker 1: and said, look, something's really wrong with Dasha. This is weird.

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Speaker 1: She keeps calling and asking the same question. Can you

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Speaker 1: please go around to her place? My daughter lives close by.

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Speaker 1: My daughter came around and I was agitated, marching around

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Speaker 1: saying there's something wrong. I don't know what it is,

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Speaker 1: and I kept asking her what was going on? What's happening?

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Speaker 1: And then my boyfriend had been very concerned because he'd

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Speaker 1: called me. He'd left to go to somewhere that he

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Speaker 1: had to be at and he'd called me to see

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Speaker 1: how I was, and apparently I wasn't making a lot

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Speaker 1: of sense, and I kept repeating myself, so he came

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Speaker 1: back to my heart. So the two of them were

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Speaker 1: in my house together. They'd never met before, so I

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Speaker 1: just couldn't remember that I'd done it, and I kept saying,

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Speaker 1: what's going on. They called an ambulance. The ambulance came.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't get in the ambulance. I didn't want to

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Speaker 1: go to hospital. I knew that much, and the ambulance

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Speaker 1: guys were fabulance, and they persuaded me to go. And

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Speaker 1: so off I went to the hospital and everybody, the ambos,

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Speaker 1: my daughter, and they were all convinced I was having

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Speaker 1: a stroke. And so I was wheeled in quick smart

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Speaker 1: on a sort of jet trolley as it were, into emergency,

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Speaker 1: and quite quickly they established through a whole lot of

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Speaker 1: tests that they did eg's they did, but tests they

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Speaker 1: did MRI. They even did a lumber puncture test, which

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Speaker 1: was the most painful thing I'd ever experienced in my life,

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Speaker 1: and that's what brought me out of it. About six

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Speaker 1: hours after I was in emergency, I just suddenly went yeow,

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Speaker 1: that is so painful.

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Speaker 3: What are you doing to me? So it's almost like

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Speaker 3: those cartoons used to see when someone gets booked on

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Speaker 3: the head and they get amnesia, and then they book

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Speaker 3: them on the head again and then they remember, they

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Speaker 3: come back to.

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Speaker 1: Normal, beautifully put, beautifully poort.

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Speaker 2: But it was a lumber puncture, not an orgasm the

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Speaker 2: second time round.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 3: Both involved a prick, well dash. That is a fascinating story.

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Speaker 3: The podcast The Day I Lost my Mind is out

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Speaker 3: April five, you know, and I can't remember the last

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Speaker 3: time I had sex. I don't know if it was

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Speaker 3: a I don't know.

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Speaker 2: You've got amnesia as well.

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Speaker 3: It could be amnesia. I'm not too sure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe it'll bring it back.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you never know. Straordinary story and thanks so much,

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Speaker 2: appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Oh, thank you both, and good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Okay, thank you bye.

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