Hilopsilo
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I've done a good bit of research and have a good understanding what the risks of nitrous are, but not so much what level/fashion of usage will (likely) cause such things. To my understanding, B12 depletion and diffusion hypoxia/the Fink effect are the main concerns. The latter, I have less of an understanding of and is my main concern. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fink_effect )
I'll binge nitrous probably ~3 occasions per year, evenly spaced but maybe clustered in the summer months. On these occasions I'll consume up 100-150 chargers over the course of 2-3 days, then I won't inhale it again until another one of those occasions.
My technique for inhaling nitrous is to release 2-4 into a dispenser, fill a large balloon, and inhale lungfuls. I never breath back into the balloon, or breath continuously on the balloon of nitrous. I inhale it sort of like how I smoke weed but holding a bit longer; deep inhalation, hold for 5-20 seconds, exhale and back to breathing oxygen deeply.
I do however often do lungfuls in quick succession/chains; inhale lungful, hold for 5-20 seconds, exhale, take 3 deep (but hasty) breaths of oxygen, then inhale another lungful of nitrous. At most I've done this 4 times in a row before taking a couple minute break at the very least and having another go. Often when I do repeated hits like this, I'll only be taking small inhalations of nitrous that fill my lungs maybe only 60% and then adding some air, sort of like smoking a cigarette; just small inhalations spaces out between breaths of air.
I was sort of under the impression that so long as I take long breaks between these binges, take bioavailable B12 regularly, be aware of B12 deficiency symptoms, and never repeatedly breath in and out of the balloon, I'd likely be 100% fine. But reading about the Fink Effect, it seems that with extended use of nitrous, like in a binge, you can sort of enter into lowered average levels of oxygen in the blood even if you're getting minutes of breaths of oxygen between breathing nitrous hits. But its hard for me to gauge whether my level of use would actually induce the fink effect in any problematic way.
I'll binge nitrous probably ~3 occasions per year, evenly spaced but maybe clustered in the summer months. On these occasions I'll consume up 100-150 chargers over the course of 2-3 days, then I won't inhale it again until another one of those occasions.
My technique for inhaling nitrous is to release 2-4 into a dispenser, fill a large balloon, and inhale lungfuls. I never breath back into the balloon, or breath continuously on the balloon of nitrous. I inhale it sort of like how I smoke weed but holding a bit longer; deep inhalation, hold for 5-20 seconds, exhale and back to breathing oxygen deeply.
I do however often do lungfuls in quick succession/chains; inhale lungful, hold for 5-20 seconds, exhale, take 3 deep (but hasty) breaths of oxygen, then inhale another lungful of nitrous. At most I've done this 4 times in a row before taking a couple minute break at the very least and having another go. Often when I do repeated hits like this, I'll only be taking small inhalations of nitrous that fill my lungs maybe only 60% and then adding some air, sort of like smoking a cigarette; just small inhalations spaces out between breaths of air.
I was sort of under the impression that so long as I take long breaks between these binges, take bioavailable B12 regularly, be aware of B12 deficiency symptoms, and never repeatedly breath in and out of the balloon, I'd likely be 100% fine. But reading about the Fink Effect, it seems that with extended use of nitrous, like in a binge, you can sort of enter into lowered average levels of oxygen in the blood even if you're getting minutes of breaths of oxygen between breathing nitrous hits. But its hard for me to gauge whether my level of use would actually induce the fink effect in any problematic way.