How long is "too long" when it comes to nitrous?

[In utero]

No drug sourcing discussion. I know you weren't specifically asking for a source but just "how to get it", but that counts too. Any repeats and this'll result in warnings/infractions. ~Jesusgreen

 

[sleepy]

lol! i'm thrilled to be called a "hero" for paying for professional nitrous..... that ringing that you describe, is bad, as you know.... and as is common, the more you know about the dangers of specific drugs, the less fun they are, not that that's a bad thing, just takes the fun out of it, though for good reasons. a lot of people regret the stupid shit they've done. myself included, though no one except my dad suspects i've lost cognitive capacity.... as i've done well in grad school, etc.... though he's no dummy himself, and is probably right. be careful. watch for the signs of oxygen deprivation: that is an extremely hard thing on your precious brain. take care!

 

[acidclouds]

Free divers repeatedly hold their breath for many minutes often to the point of blacking out for years and decades of their lives.

In an Australian study, researchers looked for evidence of “brain insults” by administering tests to 21 free divers. Here’s the summary of the results from the researchers, Lynne “Ridgway and Ken McFarland of the University of Queensland, as reported in 2006 in the Clinical Neuropsychologist:

Standard neuropsychological tests, with known sensitivity to mild brain insults, included speed of visuo-motor responding, speed of language comprehension, response inhibition, and visual and verbal attention and recall tasks. Results indicated that the breath-hold divers performed tasks within the average range compared to norms on all tests, suggesting that 1-20 years of repeated exposure to hypoxemia [an abnormally low level of oxygen in the arterial blood] including multiple adverse neurological events did not impact on performance on standard neuropsychological tasks.

http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/is-breath-holding-hazardous-to-your-brain/

I'm hoping that this means that repeatedly holding in lung fulls of nitrous for 1-2 minutes isn't too bad for us.

 

[eye_wide_open]

Nitrous is easy to deprive your oxygen for sure.. then whatever the nitrous does just compounds the issue when it knocks you out into lala land and you start having epiphanies. Had to stop that stuff.. like it too much. Didn't like to breath between rips.. had a scary incidence and woke up drooling after trying several times to pull myself off the floor when I went too deep. 8)
No bueno.

I kinda did the same thing huffing ether.

Can't be huffing gasses. Stuff just ruins me. Feels good though.

 

[Pjkt2501]

Also worthy of mention here:

The nitrous people inhale to get high off of isn't medical grade (unless it's from / at the doctor's office) and thus contains many impurities. Average % of oxygen in the air is 21%, greater than 24% is dangerous (medically over-oxygenated rooms are 22-23% O2, instead of 21% ). Same goes for any O2 you can purchase freely - it isn't pure.

 

[acidclouds]

Yeah I've always assumed the headache/general sick feeling after a nitrous binge was the impurities/oily gunk rather than the lack of oxygen but who knows, its probably both.

Either way feeling sick is a good sign that you've had too much but it can be very hard to stop.

 

[Swimmingdancer]

Thanks, wasn't sure where it belonged, my bad!

Swimmingdancer, YOU ARE THE MAN (or woman ) - been looking for a product like that! I love the nitrous high but I've become really worried that my binging has done some hypoxic damage. That's perfect

LOL, why thank you! :-D
I figure it would be helpful.

Also worthy of mention here:

The nitrous people inhale to get high off of it's medical grade (unless it's from / at the doctor's office) and thus contains many impurities. Average % of oxygen in the air is 21%, greater than 24% is dangerous (medically over-oxygenated rooms are 22-23% O2, instead of 21%). Same goes for any O2 you can purchase freely - it isn't pure.

I'm assuming you meant "it isn't medical grade"?

 

[Pjkt2501]

Yeah! That's the one! hahah, whoops. I'll go fix that now for new readers...

 

[NotQuiteThere]

Yeah! That's the one! hahah, whoops. I'll go fix that now for new readers...

So you're saying there's no easily accessible way to get 100% (or close to 100%) pure oxygen without some sort of license? Dammit. I didn't think there would be, pure oxygen is dangerous just as a fire hazard aside from anything else.

 

[Swimmingdancer]

Also worthy of mention here:

The nitrous people inhale to get high off of isn't medical grade (unless it's from / at the doctor's office) and thus contains many impurities. Average % of oxygen in the air is 21%, greater than 24% is dangerous (medically over-oxygenated rooms are 22-23% O2, instead of 21. Same goes for any O2 you can purchase freely - it isn't pure.

So you're saying there's no easily accessible way to get 100% (or close to 100%) pure oxygen without some sort of license? Dammit. I didn't think there would be, pure oxygen is dangerous just as a fire hazard aside from anything else.

That's not true. You can get medical-grade 99+% oxygen. In fact, the links I posted (where you can buy it online), one of them is for 90% oxygen and the other for 99.5% oxygen. The remaining percentages are not contaminants, they are just gases found in normal air (only purer/cleaner than normal air).

Pure oxygen by itself is actually not flammable. Oxygen just helps fuels to burn faster. Plus lots of things are flammable/oxidizers and that doesn't mean you can't buy them. However, it may be harder to get huge quantities of oxygen at once, as they prefer to take precautions with large quantities. It does not mean the small quantities are less pure. And they'd be handy for your purposes.

The reason that oxygenated rooms are not pure oxygen is because that would create make a fire worse if the room caught on fire. When administering pure oxygen people breathe out of a small canister or from a tube. You can easily buy medical-grade pure or almost-pure oxygen in small containers.

As for nitrous containing "many impurities", I don't personally know about that, I haven't researched it, but "impurities" are not necessarily contaminants, aka bad for you. If you are getting nitrous chargers for making whipped cream, then technically they are made for human consumption. It's possible that a sketchy Chinese charger could have less rigorous testing for contaminants at the factory.

 

[sleepy]

i have to say the direction that this thread is taking concerns me. lets remember that the OP has already expressed concern for damaging his brain and reluctant desire to quite this stuff. also- i had a friend who had tenitus from working in a factory, he suffered terribly, finally got it to a managable level, then discovered and briefly abused nitrous and his tenitus returned, worse than it had ever been, and now he suffers, all day, all night, etc, and has been told by specialists that he will have to live w/ it, that it will not get better, and there r no effective treatment for him. ( the few that r available were ineffective for him, as they r for most people.) permanently giving yourself a chronic, debilitating, untreatable condition is simply NOT WORTH the 15 secs of yummy feeling. to the OP- please be careful.