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The Downside of Getting High on Nitrous Oxide
    #7738829 - 12/09/07 11:34 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

The Downside of Getting High on Nitrous Oxide
December 9, 2007 - Wired Science

For a 41-year-old man in Taiwan, laughing gas is no longer a laughing matter. After inhaling approximately five tiny canisters of the mild anesthetic every day for ten years, the nitrous oxide abuser started to develop bizarre neurological problems.

Whippets are small cylinders of nitrous oxide that are purportedly used as a propellant for whipped cream. Morons (shown below) sometimes fill balloons with the gas and then inhale it repeatedly to obtain a brief high.

In November 2003, the Taiwanese man's sense of touch became so faint that he could barely handle chopsticks. Even worse: he felt sensations similar to electrical shocks in his neck and legs.

At Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Chia-Yi Lin, Kwong-Kum Liao, and their colleagues examined their patient with an MRI scan. Part of his spinal column had degenerated. That was no surprise since laughing gas interferes with the production of myelin, a fatty coating that surrounds nerves and helps them send signals.

In the January 2007 issue of Clinical Toxicology, Lin and Liao explained that the gas inactivates vitamin B12 and the junkie was already running low on that nutrient. Daily doses of the gas for ten years worsened his dietary deficiency, leading to the severe neurological damage. At the end of their correspondence, the doctors did not say what became of their patient, but they made it clear that he was not alone.

The following September, a correspondence to the Medical Journal of Australia described a 20-year-old woman that developed paralysis in her legs after inhaling ten to twenty canisters of whipped cream propellant per day for almost two weeks.

In this case, the young lady claimed that her actions were an attempt to cope with the pain of a sprained ankle, but she was no stranger to drug abuse. Before her nitrous oxide binge, the junkie had abused heroin and enrolled in a methadone program. When she was found trapped in the back seat of a car, there were approximately sixty empty canisters at her feet.

Blood tests showed that her kidneys were failing, she was anemic, and her vitamin B12 was very low. With such a complicated set of symptoms, the doctors were unsure of what was wrong. As they sat their patient up to take a spinal fluid sample, her heart rate slowed to a crawl. The physicians revived the imperiled addict with CPR and transferred her to an intensive care unit.

Michaela Cartner, a doctor at Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane, said that her patient recovered partially after receiving doses of vitamin B12 and the amino acid methionine. Both of those chemicals helped to rebuild the damaged myelin coating around her nerve fibers. Seven months later, and after an aggressive rehabilitation program, the unfortunate girl could walk again.



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Re: The Downside of Getting High on Nitrous Oxide [Re: veggie]
    #7738851 - 12/09/07 11:48 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

good lord...

do we really need this judgmental language in every sentance? must we replace every noun with one denoting disdain? That was extremely tiring to read

But yeah... vitamin deficiency isn't fun, but if recreational nitrous were legalised, regular mechanisms (i.e. lawsuits) could bring a pressure on manufacturer's to notify consumers that they need to take supplements, or not do 60 fucking canisters a day


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Re: The Downside of Getting High on Nitrous Oxide [Re: johnm214]
    #7739298 - 12/10/07 05:39 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

This proves that moderation is key. Just for once I'd like to read a headline saying "MAN ON SSRI'S KILLS 9, SHOOTS HIMSELF" or "SUGER ADDICT NOW HAS DIABETES".


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Re: The Downside of Getting High on Nitrous Oxide [Re: Visionary Tools]
    #7739568 - 12/10/07 08:06 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Visionary Tools said:
This proves that moderation is key. Just for once I'd like to read a headline saying "MAN ON SSRI'S KILLS 9, SHOOTS HIMSELF" or "SUGER ADDICT NOW HAS DIABETES".




Or any following the pattern "A fairly normal person gets fucked by doing something seemingly normal". Just to see an act 2 months later banning being normal.


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Re: The Downside of Getting High on Nitrous Oxide [Re: funnybunny]
    #7739999 - 12/10/07 11:01 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Yes, it depletes vitamin B12.  Take supplements or eat fruit.  Yayy.

5 canisters a day for 10 years, I don't think the stuff is that fun, but no shit it had some adverse effect on his body.

You know if you work out too much you can damage your body?  Outlaw exercise!

Fucking fools!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Re: The Downside of Getting High on Nitrous Oxide [Re: elbisivni]
    #7740146 - 12/10/07 11:40 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

I wish I could meet the guy who wrote this so I could punch him in the face... judgmental retard...

(obviously moderation is important with any substance however)


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Re: The Downside of Getting High on Nitrous Oxide [Re: Visionary Tools]
    #7741572 - 12/10/07 04:50 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

> This proves that moderation is key.

A one sided story with a heavy bias. This proves nothing beyond junkies and nitrous don't mix in at least two cases, assuming the two junkies, and the biased reporter, were telling the truth.


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Re: The Downside of Getting High on Nitrous Oxide [Re: veggie]
    #7742108 - 12/10/07 06:45 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

I believe this neuro-toxicity stuff because I huffed a bunch of duster one night and passed out on a road and almost got hit by a car. I woke up in the ditch thinking that there was grass in the middle of the road. The whole next week I really couldn't do any of my basic algebra anymore. My whole mental process just got cloudy and I felt retarded... Never touched the stuff again...except that one time :wink:


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Re: The Downside of Getting High on Nitrous Oxide [Re: dill705]
    #7742250 - 12/10/07 07:07 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

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I believe this neuro-toxicity stuff because I huffed a bunch of duster one night and passed out on a road and almost got hit by a car. I woke up in the ditch thinking that there was grass in the middle of the road. The whole next week I really couldn't do any of my basic algebra anymore. My whole mental process just got cloudy and I felt retarded... Never touched the stuff again...except that one time :wink:




dustoff is truely the stuff of the devil

I was with some people in high school, and someone passed around a can... ghetto asses

I poo poo on those idiots :snub:


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Re: The Downside of Getting High on Nitrous Oxide [Re: johnm214]
    #7747980 - 12/12/07 03:23 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Dang,

I was just thinking about getting my 15 pounder filled for the Holidays.


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Re: The Downside of Getting High on Nitrous Oxide [Re: dill705]
    #7758469 - 12/14/07 01:34 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

dill705 said:
I believe this neuro-toxicity stuff because I huffed a bunch of duster one night and passed out on a road and almost got hit by a car. I woke up in the ditch thinking that there was grass in the middle of the road. The whole next week I really couldn't do any of my basic algebra anymore. My whole mental process just got cloudy and I felt retarded... Never touched the stuff again...except that one time :wink:




Duster is not N20!


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Re: The Downside of Getting High on Nitrous Oxide [Re: WhiskeyClone]
    #7758676 - 12/14/07 02:37 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

> Duster is not N20!

Details, details....


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Re: The Downside of Getting High on Nitrous Oxide [Re: Seuss]
    #7758795 - 12/14/07 03:09 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Definitely a nit worth picking


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Re: The Downside of Getting High on Nitrous Oxide [Re: WhiskeyClone]
    #7758959 - 12/14/07 03:54 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

> Definitely a nit worth picking

They both have nitrogen in them, how different can the be?  :grin:  (drugs are bad, m'kay?  :rolleyes:)


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Re: The Downside of Getting High on Nitrous Oxide [Re: Seuss]
    #7759097 - 12/14/07 04:30 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

PM me if you need some nitrogen




I have a reliable source


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    #7759893 - 12/14/07 07:46 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: The Downside of Getting High on Nitrous Oxide [Re: dr_gonz]
    #7760464 - 12/14/07 10:40 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

eh, nitrous bores me. it was fun when i was a teenager though.

ive seen so much stupid shit happen with n20 at concerts and parties i lost interest in it quickly.

not my scene, but more power to those who enjoy it.


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Re: The Downside of Getting High on Nitrous Oxide [Re: johnm214]
    #7761370 - 12/15/07 10:38 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Abuse drugs, abuse yuourself- good riddance.


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