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Disorientation
Confusion is the inability to think with your usual speed or clarity, including feeling disoriented and having difficulty paying attention, remembering, and making decisions.
Dr. Keegan Duchicela reviewed this
16 year experience in family medicine
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A 46-year old asked:
What cause a person to feel disorientation?
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A 29-year old asked:
What could be causing sudden, and brief disorientation?
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A 43-year old asked:
Why do I feel disorientated recently?
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A 29-year old asked:
What could cause me to be feeling disorientated after sugary drinks?
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A 41-year old asked:
Is it possible for stress to cause disorientation?
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A 38-year old asked:
What would cause constant dizziness, disorientation?
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Some differences between confusion and disorientation?
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A 36-year old asked:
Has anyone had disorientation as a symptom of early menopause?
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A 47-year old asked:
What could cause a feeling of disorientation and inability to concentrate very well?
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A 28-year old male asked:
I'm experiencing sporadic disorientation frequently, difficult to describe. Feels as if i'm falling backwards despite not actually physically so.
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A 49-year old male asked:
Can anxiety cause forgetfullness and disorientation?
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A 34-year old asked:
What are memory loss and disorientation symptoms of?
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A female asked:
Does anxiety cause brief moments of confusion/disorientation?
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A 40-year old asked:
What symptoms include headaches, disorientation and being tired?
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A 18-year old female asked about a male:
Can lyrica (pregabalin) make someone disorientated with kidney faliure?
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A 37-year old female asked:
I frequently get a vibrating sensation in my head along with difficulty concentrating and a feeling of disorientation. What can this be?
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A 23-year old female asked:
I am on tasignia and other chemo meds. Is itching and disorientation a side effectof this? I took it last night and i feel awake but disorientated.
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A 35-year old asked:
Why when talking to someone how come I feel disorientated and dizzy?
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A 41-year old asked:
What could memory loss, headaches and disorientation be symptoms of?
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A 17-year old male asked:
What would cause a short spur of complete disorientation/ dizzy spell. It lasts less than 2 seconds and doesn't happen much, but when it does?
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A 17-year old female asked:
I experience extreme dizziness and disorientation upon standing after I sit/lay down for more then 10 min. Is that caused from previous concussions?
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A 45-year old female asked:
I am taking Lexapro (escitalopram) in the morning and one day had a coffee with vanilla syrup in it and had bad side effects i became disorientated. Is this normal?
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A 65-year old female asked:
I am having bad nausea and disorientation after taking Tramal 100 go pain. I took my first dose at 6pm yesterday and another dose 6 hours later (midnight). Is there something I can do to help eliminate it from my system? Should I see a Dr?
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A 43-year old female asked:
Covid pos. and high blood sugar(14 is diabetic, disorientated what to do?
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A 64-year old male asked:
Contiuous headsce, no energy, lifeless, brainless, dizzy and disorientated. can it be vertigo?
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A 29-year old asked:
Can you have dizziness and disorientation during period?
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A 32-year old asked:
What is causing my random moments of disorientation, confusion, slurred speech and nausia?
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A 23-year old male asked:
Disorientated, headache, hungry, nauseous. Feeling like i'm in a dream, feeling of blacking out.
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A member asked about a 56-year old male:
My dad woke up from a coma a few days ago and alot of his mind is disorientated! Is this natural? Will his memory come back completely?
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A 41-year old asked:
What causes cold intolerance? I get nausea, headaches, disorientation from being outside for more than a few minutes in cold temperature.
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