Almost dying from nitrous oxide
Please, for the sake of God, don’t experiment with nitrous. And if you do, never do it while driving. Im the most stupid example of why this is such a horrible idea.
Im a 20 year old male living in germany. Right now im in my exam phase. My life has been quite good for a while now. I‘ve been making good money and looking forwards to studying computer science at a college.
Since a few months, a few friends and I have started experimenting with different substances.
Everything began with weed. We’ve had our fun going through the city at night with a joint, a few weeks later we even bought our first bong. We were really having fun, doing multiple hits at random places. I even felt like the amount of weed we consumed was still manageable for me to keep my life in order.
As time passed, the weed was getting boring. We wanted to experience new things.
A friend of mine told me that his plug got some micro lsd left, and he wanted to sell them.
We watched multiple videos about acid and how wild you could trip on it. So we bought 250ug of these pills.
A friend of mine, lets just call him L, was the one tripping with me. On a sunny day, we swallowed all of them. I did 90ug and he did 160.
We didn’t seem to notice and effects even after multiple hours, so we just assumed we got scammed.
A few weeks later, a friend of mine told me you could buy nitrous oxide at some small place in the City. I was instantly fascinated by this. I always wanted to try nitrous, so i went ahead and bought a 700g tank and some ballons.
We emptied the whole bottle that day within a few hours.
My friend L was getting tired of all those substances, he wanted to do a break. I agreed, until i found out you could buy these little whipped cream canisters in almost every supermarket. I bought the canister made for spraying whipped cream, and a box of 10 small 8g whippets. As soon as i went back into my car, i assembled everything. I took a first hit and instantly recognised the feeling. The little sweetness of the nitrous, and the effects that started to kick in. The strongest effect i had when consuming nitrous was the echo. Literally everything, every little sound had a super loud echo. My friend L didn’t like it, he said it was overstimulating for him.
I liked all the effects, it was like a different world to me, it even calmed me a bit.
It was my dad‘s birthday, so i decided to come over and drink a few glasses of wine. We had fun talking about everything going on right now.
On that evening, i also had a date planned with a girl i was meeting for a while now.
As i was driving, i thought maybe the nitrous and alcohol would calm me down a little bit, make me a little less nervous. I decided to take a few hits of the nitrous… bad idea. I can’t remember how many hits i did. I can only remember the last one.
When you inhale nitrous, youre supposed to hold your breath for ten seconds. When i took my last hit, i did exactly that. Then i blacked out, to this day i still can’t remember what happend during those few seconds. When i woke up again, i was extremely confused, my car was rotated sideways on the track. For whatever reason, i grabbed my lighter and got out of m car to see what happened.
There where 3-4 people there telling me to sit down immediately. I sat down and looked at my car, then I realised what had actually happened.
The whole front of my car was completely fucked up, the left tire seemed to have exploded or something, the wheel joints had been completely bended. After that my thoughts started rushing in my mind. „Fuck, they’re going to call the police“. I got back into my car, in a poorly attempt to hide the tank of nitrous, i pushed it under the front right seat. I cant imagine what the other people on the outside where thinking. When I got back outside, they handed me a bottle of water, telling me to sit still and not move my neck. This was the point where I saw what I crashed into, it was another parked car (thank god).
The other car was also completely fucked up.
It felt like a few seconds until the ambulance and police arrived.
The medics instantly rushed to me, one of them was holding my head tightly and the other one was pressing at different spots on my body asking me questions „Do you feel any pain here?“.
I didn’t seem to have any injuries. They still proceeded to put me into the ambulance truck, putting on a full ECG on my body.
A few minutes later, a police lady entered the truck. She began asking me questions about the whole accident, „What do you remember?“ „Why didn’t you see the other car?“.
I answered all of her questions, of course not telling her I inhaled nitrous. I told her „I really don’t know, i just blacked out for some reason“.
Of course, she proceeded to do an alcohol test. I had 0.36 per mille in my system.
In germany, we have a trial rule. When you complete your drivers license, you get a 2 year trial time. If you fuck up during that time, you’re gonna get punished more than a normal driver.
The truck drove to the nearest hospital, they proceeded to do some checks and a few hours later the police showed up again. They wanted to collect a blood sample for a more precise alcohol test.
After everything was done, I was let out of the Hospital.
Im still waiting for the next steps. If im lucky, im going to get my license back next week, if not, im gonna get it revoked for a few months.
Im disgusted by drugs when I think about them now. Im even more disgusted by my own behaviour. I was completely retarded. It could have ended worse, I could have killed somebody or myself.
Please take me as an example.