Dissociatives how easily can you paralyze yourself and do horrible neuropathic damage with nitrous?

[Mycophile]

So, I like nitrous, but I generally only use it like a few weeks out of the year when I'm on my summer vacation. I'm currently on that vacation now. What I'll do is usually when I'm drunk and smoking some weed I'll just start doing balloon after balloon using my dispenser and I'll try to stay in that nitrous state for about an hour or two. It is pretty bad binging I guess, but I'm always making sure to breath enough oxygen and take breaths while using the balloons. I don't breath in and out of the balloons like some people do either which I've heard is bad, and I never ever inhale out of the dispenser.

I was looking up tanks and trying to understand how they work since I have always used dispensers and crackers, and I ended up on a reddit forum and people were talking about this video and some other videos about the dangers of nitrous. This scares this shit out of me:

I was watching this video and some others on youtube where you could see cases where people fucking paralyzed themselves for life by someone doing so much nerve damage and depleting their B12. There are also cases of people with horrific neuropathic pain that never goes away.

However, I've use nitrous in the ways I've mentioned for probably about 8 years in a row just during the summers as mentioned, and I've never felt all that bad. I will admit that I'll frequently black out while doing it because I'll already be shitfaced drunk and high when I start and I will become pretty dissociated while doing it, but I'm not sure how unusual that is.

How great are the dangers of paralysis and massive B12 depletion if you only do nitrous like once a year but you binge on it maybe like every 3 days for an hour or two for a couple weeks? Cause if there's a high risk I could just end up paralyzed after doing too many balloons then I'm not going to do it anymore. I will do a lot at one time, but I do it very infrequently.

It seems like more people are having problems with nitrous, but is it really that easy to end up like these people? Do you have to do it really frequently, or can you somehow just come to while doing some balloons and all of the sudden find that you can't walk properly?

 

[Mycophile]

I don't want ANY part of what's going on in these videos, but I just don't have a proper understanding of how frequently one needs to do nitrous, or how much in one sitting, for this kind of thing to be likely:

 

[paranoid android]

Your only real worry with nos is b12 depletion which can easily be countered with vitamins

 

[Shinji Ikari]

^I don't know if that would work indefinitely, I imagine not. Nitrous stops your body from being able to absorb B12 as well as depleting your reserves so even with supplements I think daily use would catch up with you eventually.

It's really hard to determine how long that would take though. I've heard anywhere from a few months to several years depending on the individual. Some people are better at absorbing and storing B12 than others.

How great are the dangers of paralysis and massive B12 depletion if you only do nitrous like once a year

Very low. I've never heard of somebody encountering complication on such a short binge. You would have to be using it daily for months or be very very unlucky.

 

[JackARoe]

Holy.......those videos.

 

[Mycophile]

Holy.......those videos.

I know it's scary shit. But I'd have to use a REAL lot for the to happen right? Like, I don't know what these people's habits look like, but isn't it likely that these people probably did nitrous daily for weeks on end, if not months or even years?

 

[JackARoe]

I know it's scary shit. But I'd have to use a REAL lot for the to happen right?

Yes, I believe some of these people were using extraordinary amounts. Not just a box or two of whippets. Also, I’m sure there’s other factors involved that we don’t know about.

But you take care of yourself, Myco, the most harmful part some of this is worrying about it. Just be careful, safe and wise.

 

[Gary White]

I would worry more about hypoxia. It is very easy to OD on nitrous by forgetting to breathe. I always add oxygen to the nitrous and it actually enhances the buzz. If you have a pretty good N2O concentration going, just doing straight O2 will keep that going quite a while.
I am using the 1365g tanks and an O2 bottle in a rig that lets me meter it through a hose. I have found about 6 PSI O2 and 4PSI N2O is a nice mix. If you are hitting it more than twice a minute, you are wasting gas.