Splatt
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Nitrous Oxide Health Issues:
Nanging too hard is not healthy (although fun), you can suffer from B12 deficiency and other nasty stuff! This is a guide not condoning the abuse of nitrous oxide, but rather to tell N2O abusers already out there, some nasty stuff I've encountered.
You might not think there's much to "nanging" and while a few might not hurt if you are going to become a bulb-whore, like me, you're going to have to avoid some of the nasty bulb habits you can get into. This may save your life one day, here's a run down, I'll edit it if anyone has suggestions and when I remember something else. You might think these are stupid, and anyone with common sense could work it out. Common sense is still common sense when you're in bulb-world, but (in reality) it's the other way around, twisted, chewed up and thrown into the compost (or launched into hyperspace).
The Bulb Machine:
It is REDICUOUSLY IMPORTANT that the bulb machine works, as soon as you're leaving bulb-land, or you might actually be sane for some of the session!
Self Health Concerns:
That's all I can think of for now.. More will come to me, and anyone can add in the thread other experiences and tips to pass on for healthy bulbing!
Nanging too hard is not healthy (although fun), you can suffer from B12 deficiency and other nasty stuff! This is a guide not condoning the abuse of nitrous oxide, but rather to tell N2O abusers already out there, some nasty stuff I've encountered.
You might not think there's much to "nanging" and while a few might not hurt if you are going to become a bulb-whore, like me, you're going to have to avoid some of the nasty bulb habits you can get into. This may save your life one day, here's a run down, I'll edit it if anyone has suggestions and when I remember something else. You might think these are stupid, and anyone with common sense could work it out. Common sense is still common sense when you're in bulb-world, but (in reality) it's the other way around, twisted, chewed up and thrown into the compost (or launched into hyperspace).
The Bulb Machine:
It is REDICUOUSLY IMPORTANT that the bulb machine works, as soon as you're leaving bulb-land, or you might actually be sane for some of the session!
- Make sure the thing is clean!! - Yes, I know it is hard sometimes when you're coming back from a rave, and all you want to do is suck down a few cones, and then some bulbs, and enter the land of MDxx comedown weirdness multiplied by ten. But think about your poor lungs! To clean it, just use hot water and shake it around a bit and wash it out. Then get some tissue paper and dig down around the inside of the machine around the sides, as much as you can to remove any left over gunk/residue. Make sure you dry it really good or wait a bit before using it (so clean it after each big bulb session!).
If you don't believe me that bulbs leave some nasty stuff around, that could turn into something toxic (possibly anyway, or at least not good for you), go and open your bulb machine now, and swipe your index finger around the top of the inside of the metal canister. If you do as much bulbs as me, and never clean it, you'll probably wanna puke!
- Winter Tips! - Sometimes Winter can piss you off with bulbs. All kinds of weird things happen. Like it seems there is less nitrous oxide in each bulb for a start. Sometimes it gets clogged really easily after about ten bulbs, and unless you leave it alone for a bit, it won't be giving you any sweet laughing gas. Running hot water over the outside of the bulb machine seems to work good, but ofcourse don't use this method for the glass syphons. This tip may not sound like a health issue, but seriously, in bulb-tard mode you can do some stupid shit trying to work out why it's not working, then pointing it at your face wbhile screwing the bulb in while the lids not connected to the canister. Yes, I nearly killed myself doing this once.
I also ripped a part of my bottom lip off using bulbs in winter, it was a small bulb machine and it froze up a lot. I ripped the bulb machine away as I felt the cold (retarded, i know), and with force I ripped a nice size chunk of my lip off from inside my mouth, I can astill feel it! It didn't stop bleeding for like an hour, pissing out.
- Make sure everything is tight and the attachments and seals are in properly! - Frostbite is not something you should be getting for exploring the dark, deep, inner workings of your mind, for 15 seconds. I've seen and experienced all sorts of avoidable frost-related injuries and scares.
Just make sure the thing is in tight, and NEVER twist the bulb back a tiny bit after puncuring it, if you're going to double-load, do the action of unscrewing really, really fast! Also don't force double-bulbs in too hard. One bulb is enough at a time (Ha ha ha - Yeah right!)
Self Health Concerns:
- Care for your lungs! - Don't force the gas in, let it come in fairly slowly and breathe it in... You don't want to cough out your precious bulb or worse, pop your lungs.
- OXYGEN DEPRIVATION IS BAD - Duh, but I do it every weekend. Yes, I know you need to hold your bulb in to get the best effects. But it is sooo easy to hypnotize yourself into holding it in for longer than needed, by the gas itself coming on, and a focal point. So practise keeping it in only when you start getting to the peak of the experience.
I've held my breath in a closed car, for like 4 minutes straight once, and came out of the trip having some weird, full-on seizure (witnessed by my mate) where my face was not only pale and drugged-out looking, but it was shaking and my skin was bubbling and what-not exactly in time with some hardhouse music, bass, beats, sounds and all. All I remember is seeing a giant fractal and trying to talk to someone in it. So yeah!! Care for your brain! Hold the bulbs in for like 30 seconds if that. They work fine like that.
- Eye Care - You might think this is just stupid, but on an MDA or MDMA comedown, or even speed. If you do nitrous you can get some pretty crazy experiences, especially because of the sleep deprivation (like merging with your dreams YOU SHOULD be having by sleeping!). But it is so, so easy to stare at a focal point, go into deep hypnosis from the nitrous, and music or whatever, and you'll be staring at something for minutes, without blinking. It is like you are just stuck in that state, and you're sometimes not even breathing and such.
So close your eyes before hitting the nitrous hard on a comedown.... I know that fade-to-black (then black to fractals!) effect is really cool, but c'mon, not blinking for a minute or two can't be healthy, especially when your eyes are probably staring at a light in the dark, with giant dilated pupils from your stimulants.
- Vitamen B12 - Go eat your vitamens after and before nitrous sessions. You might not turen into a cripple overnight, but it will happen! (Unlikely but it HAS happened from extreme vitamen B12 deficiency). If you can't afford the pills eat a banana or three, and some vegemite! See erowid for more details on VB12 issues with nitrous, but most people know of it already.
- Psychosis? PFFT!!!! - It's ignorant to think just because bulbs only last for a minute or so, that they couldn't cause some sort of psychosis. If you're doing it every weekend or every few days, or daily, and with psychedelics or MDxx and sleep dep, you can start to believe some really deluded crap.
You can get some reall freaky REAL experiences that will haunt you forever. IE. telepathy and linked mind trips. I don't want to believe it, but me and a mate came out of the same trip, rambling about the exact same visual and rambling about how we linked subconsciously in another realm. If this happened every few days I would lock myself in the HDS ward.
That's all I can think of for now.. More will come to me, and anyone can add in the thread other experiences and tips to pass on for healthy bulbing!
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It hasn't been cleaned since the day I got it 8(
![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
Not cool.
