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Bullshit. You aren't supposed to be hypoxic when using nitrous. You take a half-breath of air, and then breathe in the n2o.

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laserlight 4 days ago | parent [-]

So, you get half the oxygen needed and somehow doing so doesn't cause hypoxia, which means “deficiency in the amount of oxygen reaching the tissues”?

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meindnoch 4 days ago | parent [-]

You don't get half the oxygen. You get as much oxygen as you would during normal calm breathing, which is pretty shallow. Basically, you take a normal breath, which is about 50% lung volume, and then fill your lung up to max capacity with n2o.

But you know what? Pulse oximeters are pretty cheap nowadays. Try it for yourself.

	▲	laserlight 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I see. So, you take a normal breath and top it up with N2O. That makes sense.