Remember help: I’ve noticed I’m blacking out for short periods. - Help.com

How much sleep have you been getting lately?

You may want to see a specialist about it, blacking out isn’t good. What if your doing something important like driving when this happens.

I still can’t see this being healthy for you in the long run. Whats to say that later it won’t be for minutes, tens of minutes, an hour? I know fish oil is good, but do you take vitamins daily too? Maybe consider taking some iron tablets too.

Well now you got me all sorts of worried about you.

I’d go to the doctor anyway.

Your not on any drugs are you?

Just what I was going to ask. Anything “recreational?”

Yes stop the oil.And see doctor as soon as possible.

I read a little bit about krill oil, like at WbMD, and don’t see any reason it would cause something like that.

wait maybe what you can blacking out is when your watching tv for a long time
and you suddenly get up and you become really weak and you think your
going to collapse.This ids the blood rushing to your legs and away
from your brain.Get up slowly.Also get more regular exersise.

You could be having little minor epileptic incidents. You really should talk to your doctor about this if it continues more a very few more days … or then if it returns.

Lack of any basic physiological necessities could cause similar symptoms, like lack of food, air, sleep, or sanity.

corriga wrote:

LadyMufflewump wrote:
You could be having little minor epileptic incidents. You really should talk to your doctor about this if it continues more a very few more days … or then if it returns.

hmm…that’s something I hadn’t considered. Thanks :)

Thanks for taking that in. :) An aunt of mine had that for a while. She was cooking once and burned her hand without knowing. She was “absent” just for a minute at a time.

corriga wrote:
i’m also really hoping I don’t have some sort of suppressed Dissociative Identity Disorder, but that’s pretty far fetched.

Never in the world in all the medical literature has there been a confirmed case of DID. I’m inclined to think it’s probably made-up, either by Freudian psychologists or the patients themselves (who had other issues going on, perhaps). So don’t worry about that at ALL.

Do, however, worry about what this means about your mental faculties, and please see your doctor right away if you can afford it.

LadyMufflewump wrote:
You could be having little minor epileptic incidents. You really should talk to your doctor about this if it continues more a very few more days … or then if it returns.

Oh! That’s another really good point.

Kind of like “road hypnosis,” when you’ve been driving a while and don’t remember going down a stretch of road . . . it can be scary when you really think about it! Was I abducted by aliens? Or was it just the “Adjustment Bureau” fixing some things!

But get checked out by a doc if it seems to be really acute!

Memory formation may be pretty natural but it’s an active process, the brain has to do something to translate experience into memory. Maybe it doesn’t feel like doing that all the time

How extreme is it,

-closer to the extreme of forgetting who and where you are like from a seizure or passing out from low blood sugar

-closer to the absent-mindedness that most of the rest of us deal with all day long, dipping in and out of various states of remembering, consciousness, dreaming and awareness?

You just sound like a deep thinker to me . . . like the professor who was walking down the street when he stopped to talk to a student.

After they had exchanged a few words, the professor asked, “When you saw me, from which direction was I coming?”

The student replied, while pointing behind the professor, “You came from that way.”

“Good!” said the professor. “Then I’ve already had lunch!”

corriga wrote:
It’s exactly like I described earlier, whatever happens, I remain functioning and aware. I usually only notice it when I find myself going to do something I felt like I just thought of doing, and it’s already done. Or sometimes e-mails will be sent I don’t remember sending. Sometimes I find myself hanging up the phone but having no idea I was even having a conversation. Nothing really severe or long, but worrisome none the less.

That is worrisome. Why don’t you call your doctor’s office and have them ask the doctor if this is an emergency?

corriga wrote:
It’s exactly like I described earlier, whatever happens, I remain functioning and aware. I usually only notice it when I find myself going to do something I felt like I just thought of doing, and it’s already done. Or sometimes e-mails will be sent I don’t remember sending. Sometimes I find myself hanging up the phone but having no idea I was even having a conversation. Nothing really severe or long, but worrisome none the less.

Apart from this, is anything bothering you?

I do recommend you go to a doctor.

You are having problems with short-term memory. We ALL have SOME problems with short-term memory, but some problems cannot be ignored.

There is a region in the brain that controls short-term memory. If it is damaged, we simply cannot remember.

A man with such a damaged region had a therapist work with him for 15 years. Every day she came into his room, she had to re-introduce herself, because he could not remember her from one day to the next.

I doubt that you have such damage . . . but you should be checked out by a neurologist to remove any doubt!

I agree – UNLESS you are indulging in a green leafy illegal substance that is too strong. Otherwise, you really should go.

My guess is, also, that you don’t remember that $12,000 you borrowed from me! ;-)

what about fish allgeries. i’m allergic to seafood. the next time i run into that stuff i wont be laughing very hard. i also have blacked out on occasion, it’s hard to tell but i think i just simply stop breathing and collapse on the floor. once i do that i start breathing again normally. i have certain allergies and stress issues, i can’t think of what else it would be.

So … Corriga, is it still going on? If so, you should now make an appointment with your doctor.