Share help: Has anyone ever experienced retrograde or anterograde amnesia? - Help.com

i can’t remeber if i have or not xD

I had a some kind of short term memory loss, like an anterograde amnesia. When I got overdosed with cyclodol. Was VERY weird… like standing up and not remembering why. Lasted for about 12 hours…

I tend to have natural short-term memmory deficiency, so I can kind of relate for the more short-term symptoms, like going into the bedroom and completely forgetting what I went in there for. Sometimes my attention deficite feels much the same, like when I get to my wife’s work to pick her up from work and she asks which route I took and I can’t remember.

For me, it’s strictly short-term. I can remember things from years ago in very clear detail but I can forget something I’m doing as soon as I finish doing it. It’s not incapacitating in any way, most things are by developed habbit or instinct, but that also sometimes leads to doing things with redundancy, like I am often flushing toilets twice, once by habbit or instinct, then again because I forgot that I had just done that a few seconds earlier (likely from attention deficit and not paying conscious attention to what I was doing the first time).

I know this post is over a year old but I still have something relevent to add. I have not experienced either types of amnesia that you mentioned in your original post. However, I have experienced a type of amnesia know as “Transient Global Amnesia.” I was going out for coffee that day and my mom gave me some mail to drop in a mailbox along the way. I handed it to the mailman (while on the phone with my mom) but had no memory of doing so. I then said to her “I lost the letter you gave me!” My mom replied “no, you just handed it to the mailman.” But I didn’t retain what my mom just told me and again, told her that I lost the mail she had asked me to send. When I got home I was still very confused and disoriented and very tired. My neurologist said that I had experienced Transient Global Amnesia.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/tran…