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NITROUS PARALYZED MY LEG!!... A Clearer Explanation!
#5285476 - 02/10/06 11:11 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Back in late November, about 2 months after I started using N2O on a regular basis, I began to notice some lower back pain on the left side. I've had some history of disc problems (specifically L5-S1, the very bottom disc in the spine) and I've been treated with cortisone injections every 6 months for the past two years and I was due for another. So I made an appointment to get another facet block done. It was performed on December 16th and this time it didn't completely take the pain away as it usually does. I only got about 70% relief. To my dismay, they wouldn't repeat the injection before I had to leave for my new year's trip to California on the 30th of December. I went to Cali with some very minor lower back pain and while there, I did two acid trips and sucked up a total of about 90 or so whippets during them. I was there for 5 days and on the last day, I got out of bed and could barely walk. My left leg had lost 80% or more of motor control below the knee and I was in EXCRUCIATING pain (mainly in my outer thigh, knee and lower leg muscles). Thank God I was comfortable when sitting.
When I got back home I made an appointment to see my orthopedic spine surgeon. He had me get an MRI of my lower spine and the results were that I have still got just slightly bulging discs at L4-L5 and L5-S1 and no surgery can fix it. He told me it would fix itself in 4 weeks to 4 months, but I wasn't satisfied with that answer and begged him to do SOMETHING to help me get out of this pain and get my motor skills back. He scheduled a nerve block for January 25th. (A nerve block is the same as a facet block, except that they inject the cortisone and xylocaine directly into the nerve instead of next to it.) This is the most painful procedure I've ever experienced. It felt like I was stepping on the third rail of the subway with a ground wire taped to my lower back! It seemed to work great at first, but that's normal because the xylocaine numbs the nerve. But, after a day or so, the pain, numbness and motor control loss came back. I stopped using N2O 3 days later (January 28th) because I felt like shit from it. Explained In This Post
Then, yesterday, I read this article and FREAKED OUT! It seems obvious to me that the N2O abuse caused the escalation of the left lower back pain to paralysis of my left leg. 
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Overuse of Nitrous
This 36-year old electrical engineer came to the emergency room complaining that he was unable to walk. Symptoms had begun 4 days earlier with "pins and neeedles" in both feet that gradually worsened and ascended to involve the knees and the fingertips. With worsening of the paresthesias (-no sense of touch or pain-) he noted difficulty in maintaining proper control of the movements of his arms and hands and trouble in walking. He also reported the sensation of electric shocks through his back and legs upon flexion of the neck. He denied bladder or bowel impairment but he had been unable to have an erection for the past week. His past medical history was unremarka- ble except for occasional abuse of alcohol in the past. However he denied any drinking of alcohol for the past 8 months.
For recreational purposes he had inhaled two to three boxes of nitrous oxide, each box containing 24 cartridges, practically every day for the past six months.
When first seen his general physical examination was completely unremarka- ble. The neurological examination showed hyperesthesia and hyperalgesia in the lower extremities up to the knees. He had severe bilateral sensory dystaxia and could only stand with support.
Intramuscular B12 injections were started and during the following days his hematological status inproved, (-apart from neurological symptoms, the functional B12 deficiency caused by N2O also produces megaloblastic anemia,- ed.) although his neurological condition continued to deteriora- te. The paresthesias ascended to the nipples and he developed fecal and urinary incontinence. (- stuff deleted-)
Four weeks later he began to improve and four months after the onset of the symptoms, and his last use of nitrous oxide he could walk with some hesitation and had completely regained bowel and bladder control and sexual function (-stuff deleted-).
The Whole Article - Dangers Of Nitrous
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Re: NITROUS PARALYZED MY LEG!!... A Clearer Explanation! [Re: TM]
#5285489 - 02/10/06 11:14 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Could you explain the strange self-endorsements in your sig? That's what I'm curious about.
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Re: NITROUS PARALYZED MY LEG!!... A Clearer Explanation! [Re: Burke Dennings]
#5285506 - 02/10/06 11:17 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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They are self-explanatory and I'm a fucking show-off and proud of it and please don't jack my thread with bullshit.
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Re: NITROUS PARALYZED MY LEG!!... A Clearer Explanation! [Re: Burke Dennings]
#5285509 - 02/10/06 11:17 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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maybe he plans on marketing himself in the up and coming years.
Tripmeister, now with more visuals!
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Re: NITROUS PARALYZED MY LEG!!... A Clearer Explanation! [Re: TM]
#5285517 - 02/10/06 11:19 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Sure thing, chief.
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Re: NITROUS PARALYZED MY LEG!!... A Clearer Explanation! [Re: TM]
#5285522 - 02/10/06 11:20 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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How hopeful is the outlook on unparalyzing it?
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Re: NITROUS PARALYZED MY LEG!!... A Clearer Explanation! [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5285549 - 02/10/06 11:26 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Well, to be honest, I have no idea. I haven't told the surgeon about the nitrous abuse. I don't think I can. It seems to be improving ever so slightly each day, so I'll wait until my follow-up appointment with him on the 23rd and see what the progress is at that point.
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Re: NITROUS PARALYZED MY LEG!!... A Clearer Explanation! [Re: TM]
#5285553 - 02/10/06 11:29 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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tell your doctor that you have been using a lot of nitrous
seriously, this is your health we're talking about. it's not worth it to screw things up worse because you want to keep things on the downlow..
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Re: NITROUS PARALYZED MY LEG!!... A Clearer Explanation! [Re: Krishna]
#5285560 - 02/10/06 11:31 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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^^^^^^
seriously man, a paralyzed leg could effect the rest of your life, tell the doctor everything.
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Re: NITROUS PARALYZED MY LEG!!... A Clearer Explanation! [Re: Krishna]
#5285565 - 02/10/06 11:32 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Very good advice, but SOOO much easier said than done.
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Re: NITROUS PARALYZED MY LEG!!... A Clearer Explanation! [Re: TM]
#5285578 - 02/10/06 11:41 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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i can pretty much guarantee that he won't arrest you, won't call the cops, won't even react beyond having that knowledge and being able to change his diagnosis/your treatement based on that information
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Re: NITROUS PARALYZED MY LEG!!... A Clearer Explanation! [Re: Krishna]
#5285606 - 02/10/06 11:50 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Yeah, I know, doctor-patient confidentiality and all that, but I'm 46 years old and I'll lose a ton of credibility and respect from him, bigtime embarrasment. I'll have to see how much improvement there is over the next two weeks. That will guage how I proceed.
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Re: NITROUS PARALYZED MY LEG!!... A Clearer Explanation! [Re: TM]
#5285658 - 02/10/06 12:12 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
TripMeister said: Well, to be honest, I have no idea. I haven't told the surgeon about the nitrous abuse. I don't think I can. It seems to be improving ever so slightly each day, so I'll wait until my follow-up appointment with him on the 23rd and see what the progress is at that point.
Fucking hell, man, you need to tell him. Your drug abuse was your choice,and you are in this situation as a DIRECT RESULT OF YOUR DRUG ABUSE. You must share this information with your medical caretaker.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Re: NITROUS PARALYZED MY LEG!!... A Clearer Explanation! [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#5285717 - 02/10/06 12:28 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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I'll tell him about it if there isn't a MARKED (almost complete) improvement by my next appointment on the 23rd. He's away until then anyway. He took his family to Italy to watch the Olympics in person. This surgeon is the guy who fixed Larry Bird's knees and he does all the work on the Celtics and the Bruins. Rich-assed bastard.
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Re: NITROUS PARALYZED MY LEG!!... A Clearer Explanation! [Re: TM]
#5285757 - 02/10/06 12:40 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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"For recreational purposes he had inhaled two to three boxes of nitrous oxide, each box containing 24 cartridges, practically every day for the past six months"
Damn, that's alot.
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Re: NITROUS PARALYZED MY LEG!!... A Clearer Explanation! [Re: TM]
#5285802 - 02/10/06 12:58 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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sorry for your loss
but you're one step closer to being a pirate, Aye Matey!
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Re: NITROUS PARALYZED MY LEG!!... A Clearer Explanation! [Re: goobler]
#5285816 - 02/10/06 01:04 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Heh, you think you're being funny, but let me tell you something you don't know.
I already have no right foot. I chopped it off 19.5 years ago in a motorcycle accident.
So now, I have no way to hop on my left leg because it's paralyzed.
You still wanna make jokes?
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Re: NITROUS PARALYZED MY LEG!!... A Clearer Explanation! [Re: TM]
#5285819 - 02/10/06 01:05 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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They don't allow jokes in the Pub.
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Re: NITROUS PARALYZED MY LEG!!... A Clearer Explanation! [Re: Burke Dennings]
#5285826 - 02/10/06 01:08 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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It's not funny to make fun of someone because they got in an accident, etc. please keep that out of the pub.
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Re: NITROUS PARALYZED MY LEG!!... A Clearer Explanation! [Re: gdman]
#5285850 - 02/10/06 01:13 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Right-o, pip. However, I wasn't joking about any accidents.....
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