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Did you have any issues with B12 deficiency? I've always wondered to what extent oral B12 supplementation can mitigate the health risks of chronic nitrous use.

• labrador 4y ago
  Yes I need to take B-12 liquid orally or by shot, but my grandfather had pernicious anemia and it's hereditary, so I don't know whose fault it is. Other than that I have no major health problems, but I have neuropathic nerve pains that the doctor has never seen before so he blames the nitrous. It's not too bad. I was aware that I needed to take a lot of B-12 at the time. People ask me why I didn't get a tank instead of spending all the money on whippets. Because I would have died with a tank. Two more cautions. Nitrous is an oxidant. I found out the hard way when I almost set myself on fire smoking and doing nitrous. Also, that whah whah you feel when inhaling is not nitrous. That's hypoxia which can cause serious brain damage. I learned to do nitrous in a continuous stream without the hypoxia like at the dentist office. Edit: I remembered a third caution: nitrous is a hypnotic like kratom. You lose control, like an alcoholic or benzos blackout. One time after doing a bunch of kratom I "came to" riding my bike in my underwear at 2 am thinking I was going to find a swimming pool to take a swim. Fun times.
  • fragmede 4y ago
    Why is the O in N₂O not accessible, thus resulting in hypoxia? If you blow nitrous oxide through a lit cigarette the resulting increased burn it says there's more oxygen, not a lack of it.
    • post-it 4y ago
      Same reason the O in CO2 isn't accessible. Oxygen is used as an oxidizer in the slow burn that is human respiration. N2O is already "burnt", so your body can't burn it any further to release energy.
      • andrewflnr 4y ago
        That contradicts "nitrous is an oxidant". Or at minimum, makes it more complicated.
        • mnw21cam 4y ago
          Chlorine is an oxidising agent as well, but you don't want to be breathing that.
          • andrewflnr 4y ago
            Yes, but again, for rather the opposite reason than CO2.
      • cwkoss 4y ago
        I believe nitrous oxide can act as an oxidizer, but cannot be used for respiration for a different reason than CO2 (already fully oxidized). But I'm not sure what that reason is: maybe the enzymatic capacity to pull the O off the N2 is just order(s) of magnitude too small or it has to go through NO metabolism.
  • cwkoss 4y ago
    Very interesting, thanks for the reply!