Intimacy has their benefits but for a 54-year-old American woman one intense encounter caused her to temporarily lose her memory, which doctors explained was due to transient global amnesia.

The unidentified woman's case was published last September by the Journal of Emergency Medicine, in which she claimed that her memory was apparently wiped out after having sex with her husband, rendering her clueless on the things that transpired some 24 hours prior to the intimate act.

According to ABC News, the woman barely recalled a "mind-blowing sex" with her husband, which doctors from the Georgetown University Hospital, where the patient consulted following the episode, declared was highly possible.

In their report, Kevin Maloy and Jonathan Davis had concluded that the patient was momentarily stricken by an abrupt memory loss, medically known as transient global amnesia, which the two doctors added is normally a rarity case, temporary and unlikely to recur.

Another expert, Dr. Carol Lippa of Drexel University Medical School, explained that transient global amnesia is "caused by a scrambling of the memory circuits in the brain, often brought on by physical or emotional triggers."

"In post-coital cases, transient global amnesia may be related to changes in blood flow in the vessels that feed the brain's memory formation areas ... sort of a remote consequence of the altered blood flow that occurs during sex," the neurology professor told ABC News.

To date, medical experts have yet to pinpoint the trigger of the condition but cases were mostly attributed to the aftermaths of extreme physical exertions such as the case of the Georgetown patient.

Doctors added that individuals who are subjected to episodes of pain and psychological stress are vulnerable to the condition, which they stressed is medically-related and induced by any other cause that Science can't explain.

In the report authored by Maloy and Davis, it was established that the rare form of amnesia is likely to hit people in their 50s and an average of five persons out of 100,000 have reported suffering from the condition each year.

On her part, Lippa, who was not part of the study, reminded that while sex has its benefits such as stress-reliever and immunity-booster, it can also dramatically lead to serious medical conditions like heart attacks and cardiac arrests.