I was out drinking with a few friends when we decided to grab a few balloons at a bar (third time that week).

Typical nang experience, we had a fun time and then called it quits and went home.

I awoke a few hours later to use the bathroom and felt a bit off when I got out of bed - like I was floating and light on my feet. I tried not to think much about it but it progressively got more noticeable during my walk to the bathroom.

As I started peeing I began feeling more bodily sensations and numbness around my belly button/hands, and my vision slowly started getting filled with visuals (colourful fractals) that became more and more visible. Had it not been an unexpected occurrence I would have genuinely loved what was happening, but I started to freak out as the intensity increased and my vision became completely enveloped with coloured shapes.

I walked over to my bed and did what I could to hold myself together and not go into panic, and began feeling numbness from my left arm, across my neck and to my right arm, which scared me into thinking that I had fucked up and given myself peripheral myopathy from the nitrous. At that point I basically went into mild shock and felt myself go cold and began to sweat profusely. Thankfully my partner was there to calm me down and keep me grounded.

After 5-10 minutes it passed and I began feeling normal aside from some mild dizziness (probably from the alcohol).

Whatever happened has scared me off doing nitrous ever again. I've been feeling fine since aside from some very slight visual snow. My assumption is that I had low blood pressure from the nitrous and alcohol and I got out of bed too fast, which made me light headed compounded with the after effects of nitrous/alcohol.

Please be careful out there.