Woman Forgets She Had Sex With Husband

Many have described sex as mind-blowing, but for one woman it was mind-erasing.

The Daily Mail reports that a 59-year-old American woman known only as Alice suffered a bout of TGA, or transient global amnesia, which caused her to forget that she had sex with her husband.

TGA is a temporary episode of memory loss that occurs during strenuous activities, like sex, exercising, or jumping into icy cold or very hot water.

After Alice had sex with her husband, Scott, she said she felt disoriented. Scott quickly recognized something was wrong and asked who the current president is, to which she replied "Bill Clinton." Alice didn't even know what day it was. She was rushed to the emergency room where doctors diagnosed her with TGA.

Stroke expert Louis Caplan is quoted in the Daily Mail saying, "One of the things people have done to look at transient global amnesia is to look at frequency of various precipitants, and sex always comes out as one of the most common."

Alice told CNN that she had a small headache when she went to bed the night before her amnesia hit, and the next morning was when she and Scott had sex.

After fully recovering from her TGA episode the next day, Alice expressed her surprise at how she forgot about her sexual encounter. "Let me get this straight. We had sex. I wind up in the hospital and I can't remember anything? You owe me a 30-carat diamond!

"I was lucky because nothing bad came of it," she said. "I wasn't frightened. My husband and family were frightened. I was totally out to lunch."

EMedicine.com writes that TGA tends to affect individuals 50 and older with higher incidence. In women, specifically, TGA tends to be associated with emotional events, a history of anxiety or a pathological personality.