Apparently so. According to a story on AOL.com, “sex is one of the major triggers for the baffling medical condition called transient global amnesia in which patients lose their ability to retain immediate memory.”

Sounds like something out of a soap opera right? Well, if that’s the case, then 59 year old Alice (she declined to give her last name) is the star.

One August morning last year, Alice and her husband Scott did what most married couples do on average of two to three times a week, they had sex. However afterwards, instead of asking, “Was it good for you”, when Scott turned on the tv and the Olympics were playing, Alice looked at him perplexed and asked, “Is there an olympics?”

Scott asked Alice a couple of questions, including, ”What day is it?” which Alice did not remember, and ”Who’s the president”, to which she answered, “Bill Clinton”, in 2008. Fearing that his wife was having a stroke, Scott immediately called 911 and rushed her to the hospital.

At the hospital, for some time Alice continually asked the same few questions over and over, not being able to remember the answers. When she found out the… ahem… circumstances of her condition, she’d crack the same joke to her husband, “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!” That may have been funny the first few times, but each time Alice went through the sequence, Scott became more and more worried for her.

Alice was tested extensively until doctors found the culprit causing her memory loss. Eventually her memory returned and the couple have been living happily ever after. Alice still doesn’t remember that morning, or what happened, only falling asleep with a slight headache the night before. Because of this, she now refuses to have sex when she has a headache (sound familar?). Sorry Scott, stock up on some asprin, I guess.

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