Murbz wrote:Do be careful with the nitrous! While it produces an extremely euphoric experience, you really need to be careful - especially in combination with other drugs - I say this from experience.
One of my high school buddies was a car enthusiast (aka "motorhead"
who had nitrous injection for his vehicle. This is bad idea #1 - using non-medical grade stuff - who knows what other adulterants were in there. In any event, the experiences were a lot of fun - and also potentially dangerous if you aren't appropriately prepared. This stuff will pretty much incapacitate you and black you out - even if only for a few seconds - but that's when you can pass out and hit your head on hard objects, etc. (again - experience - I've done that
)
It's an interesting and very euphoric substance - I do like it, but always had that feeling "wow - this stuff probably isn't good for me" - maybe it's the hypoxia effect kicking in. I will say, that, even as a parent I've probably disappointed the kids by leaving them flat whipped cream after sucking up the nitrous as a kitchen whippet
Don't mean to be a doom and gloom person, but just want everyone to be safe and gain from their experiences without getting hurt. Do your research, be wise, and be safe. Moderation is always a good guide - be safe
Anyone taking nitrous meant for cars just did not do his homework at all... The only nitrous you should use are the major brands of culinary nitrous (ISI being the very best) or, of course, medical nitrous if you can get your hands on. Nitrous is one of the safest drugs there is if, like everything, is used like it should be used and by people who have informed themselves properly. Nitrous leaves the body very quickly with little to no side effects. This is why it is used so lightly by dentists all over the world (and god knows they are the very first nitrous junkies, haha
). The main issue with nitrous is hypoxia, BUT there is a huge misunderstanding surrounding this topic. When you empty your lungs and breath in nitrous you are at that very moment breathing a hypoxic gas. Hypoxia is not in itself a huge problem. Free divers expose themselves to hypoxia during each dive. The problem with hypoxia is that if it is prolonged it leads to unconsciousness and subsequently to cell damage (including brain cell damage). This is the hypoxia we want to avoid: "Hypoxia leading to cell damage". You cannot produce hypoxia leading to cell damage just from holding your breath, you just simply can't, you pass out first precisely to prevent that, this is how our bodies are built. This is they very reason we use balloons! ALWAYS USE BALLOONS! Because as soon as you are about to lose your consciousness your body cannot hold the balloon anymore and you return to normal breathing leaving the hypoxia behind BUT not without reaching maximum dissociative effects first
. Therefore, in general, the risk of hypoxia leading to cell damage when nitrous is taken from a balloon is limited. Needless to say that most (if not all) deaths from nitrous occur to people who thought it would be fun doing it in a closed environment opening a canister of nitrous into a room or a car or also typical: people using plastic bags to deliver the gas and then choking when they become unconscious.
Last but not least, heavy use of nitrous depletes B12 reserves. It is a known fact. However, you really need to be a freaking nitrous junkie to suffer from this problem.
Having said all this, drugs are not candy and all of em come with a certain amount of risk.
Read for better info (also source of what I just explained)
https://www.erowid.org/c...us/nitrous_health1.shtml