I recently found myself in the Hospital in the "CC" unit after apparently hitting my head.

I was found after hours of lying on the floor in a puddle of my own blood, KO'd.

It took 3 solid days for me to actually wake up and when I did I was in shock. The last thing I remember was watching TV before work, not doing anything that would result in the use of life support.

Now I have no clue what happened or anything that happened in the hospital for the first few days( apparently they had to restrain me with straps and such because I was trying to "escape"..... no memory of that).

Is there any "techniques" for regaining lost memories? Because this is really bugging me, I really want to know what happened.

I have had short term amnesia from smacking my head on a concrete floor at age 9 and I have been medically induced in a coma (my appendix ruptured) during that time my temperature hit like 106F when I was 13.

I have no memory of anything after arriving at the hospital, nothing solid anyways, and I am missing peaces of my childhood. People, places, events just seem to not be there for me. Some of it has come back though over the years. All I can say is with time some things may come back, then again you may never know happened. I hope you do find out though.

Talking about it and receiving therapy might help, but beyond that there's not much you can do besides cope and hope your memories eventually return to you. Sometimes amnesia will lift on its own given enough time, though you may have to face the possibility that you will never recover some of the memories that you've lost. You should probably talk to your doctor about this.

Best of luck to you, at any rate.

Not likely.

It sounds like you have a mild case of retrograde amnesia from the konk on the head. Loosing memories from around the time of the accident is pretty common for head injuries (as I understand it,) and doesn't seem like much can be done to recall those lost memories.

Three possible reason why:

First, the brain's "save" function may have failed to work properly- likely turned off while it does what amounts to a systems check to make sure everything is in place and to repair/reroute damaged connections. Not sure if this actually happens, but it sounds good.

Second, our state of mind is important to the formation of memory and recall. If you have a significantly altered mental state, you will NOT be able to recall memories formed during that time until you return or approach that state of mind. This is most commonly seen when you have a baaad hangover and wonder where all the hokers came from. That bump on the noggin caused you to enter a drastically different state of mind; unless you can figure out how to approach the state of mind you were in, you won't be able to recall those memories at all.

Finally, depending on how sudden the accident was, you may not even have a memory of what you were doing; the accident caused you to KO so fast that your brain couldn't actually save the memory to begin with. This won't, however, explain why you can't remember the hospital stay.

What were you doing before you got into the hospital or hit the head ?

I did the same thing when they were trying to fix my appendix deal, accept I was actually ripping out IV's and tubes going into me and it took 4 orderlies to hold me to the table until they could supply sedatives to knock me out. I have no memory of any of it but my dad told me about it, that one of the nurses on hand had witnessed it and she said she had never seen a 13 yeah old boy give 4 grown men such a hard time.

My understanding is that the brain goes into a primal survival mode and you basically become a irrational animal trying fend away anything that you may conceive as a threat.

Sometimes it returns by itself, if given time to heal, sometimes it doesnt, but one thing is you may not want to know what happened, from personal experience i have large chunks of my memory missing, occasionally i remember something, what makes me remember is music, for some reason a song from the time of my missing memories will trigger a memory to emerge.

I believe that, in the episode of the fine documentary series Gilligan's Isle where Gilligan gets amnesia after having a coconut fall on his head, it is cured when a second coconut falls on his head.

NOTE: I am not a doctor. Neither is "the professor".

I hate to sound like a downer, but if you were unconscious for three entire days after a head injury it's very unlikely that you'll regain any lost/suppressed memories (I would also like to express that this area of psychology can be at times quite dodgy); if you get hit on the head and get knocked out, if you don't wake up within ten minutes, it's usually indication of at least minor brain damage (beyond, say a simple concussion), and at six hours you're officially labeled comatose.

My brother was hit in the back of the head with a splitting maul a few years ago, and it caved in the back of his skull and knocked him out. He woke up after only 7 minutes, and thankfully that was a good sign, as he's back to his (mostly) normal self. He's a bit slower with math now, though, than he used to be, but otherwise seemingly unimpaired, save that, as one might guess, he cannot remember any of the 10 or so minutes before being struck.

Nope, in all honesty you'll likely never remember unfortunately

Id be speaking with your Neurologist, and finding out the results of any brain scans, but id be asking whoever found you, or the people who treated you in the hospital to help you build a timeline to at least get a vague idea of what happened to you.

Watching TV, waiting to go to work..... hardly anything that warrants what happened.

Yea, they said 5 orderlies, 5 point straps, and I was ripping out my respirator and such. I had a 24 "watcher" that I had no idea why they were there until my 5th day in(2nd day of remembering stuff), when he told me why he had to stay with me even at 3am I was like "Wuuht"??... I did what....

Either way, it's very frustrating not remembering what actually caused it. Good thing my mom was visiting or I could have been on my floor for days.