The long term effects of huffing gasoline what can I do to fix myself?

[jimbean23]

It was 16 years ago, I spent a year and a half huffing daily, it messed up my life completely and I haven't been the same since, Iv had major depression, it must have messed up my central nervous system as I had chronic anxiety for years, I'm not a fraction of the person I used to be, used to have so much going for me but everything seemed to just die out.

Can anyone advise me on how I can get better or somehow fix myself?

Iv been looking alot into hbot as a means of treating whatever damage Iv done to my brain.

[Universe1nMirror]

This is a great article. The title is a little misleading, it offers some wonderful tips on dealing with and possibly overcoming brain damage.

http://m.brainline.org/content/content.php?id=7290

[Universe1nMirror]

Have you looked into Lions Mane mushrooms? They are shown to stimulate brain cell growth and can be found at most health food stores. Practicing meditation has also helped me more than any other drug or vitamin. "If you've got a flame that's blazing dull within, take a deep breath and feed it oxygen. I'll never let it die."

[flipper336]

Recent research has revealed that in the adult brain, new neurons form in a region of the forebrain known as the subventricular zone (SVZ). But this is very rare and will not repair the amount of damage that is caused by huffing.
There are also some rare occasions where the brains neurons will reroute them selves which in turn makes it appear that the brain damage has healed.

[jimbean23]

Hi, I'm the guy that made the original post, nightfox did you get on the medical marijuana?, I can relate to what your saying been able to make eye contact and have an emotional response, if smoking helps Ill try it but I thought it would just **** my already damaged brain up even more, I had gotten a lot better gym every second day slipping a bit right now though, I'm still hallucinating everyday and my mind is still crazy, I don't think iv been able to experience lust or boredom ever since the gas.

[jimbean23]

im pissed off, i had a healthy winning brain before the gas, 20 years of **** ever since.

[StealthyX]

looks like you have anhedonia, well, I also got that ****, are you still alive? I know I am gonna commit suicide if the pain never ends!

[DDSimortal]

As crazy as it sounds gasoline actually made me...smarter

[StealthyX]

Nope, what actually Happened is this, when you almost die, the brain releases DMT, the secret of Life, so well, instead of killing your brain cells, you could have got some DMT on the street or dark web, without you having to kill your brain cells, you should have smoked some DMT!!!!

[DDSimortal]

I huffed gas and air duster from the age 13 to 17 and didnt care about me getting retarded. One day i decided to see if there was a limit to your trips so i huffed gas for 10 strait minutes. I instantly lost control over my trip and the world around me started to unravel, the 3rd dimentional grid started to divde. I was forced to accept this feeling of no return and had no choice but to forget everything about me and my life. It was the most painful, depressing and scarest feeling i ever exsperianced. Once this happend i found myself in a eturnal pool of harmony made up of every life form and everyones concaince in one perfect form. My awareness was 360 paneramic vision and i felt and tasted like everything ever created. The worst part was I didnt relize i was eturnal i REMEMBERD i was eturnal all of us as one unit since the beginning of time the alpha and omega, E=MC2. It was like we form into matter from energy and get more and more complex by using photosynthesis and evalution because all we have is time. Going through all forms of life By the time were human our form is so complex we forgot our basic eturnal form again. Which will give us that overachieving feeling that never gets old that we made matter so complicated we have to relize we forgot were eturnal again. Only heven could describe this feeling of laphter and disbelief i felt. While i was in our basic form, also the feeling of the empty unlimited void of time is almost unbarible you just want to forget again by doin the only thing you can do when your energy and thats form into matter. Im 20 now and im a bank valt tech/engineer with a perspective to always stay positive, forgive those who wrong me and uncondenionaly love everyone. My self awreness goes from feeling my bones, organs and circulated blood flow all the way to feeling peoples emotions by reading there body languge. And my mathimatics are getting so easy to me now im starting to reconize the formulas of inaunimous objects. I know its corny  but If i could change
One formula just a tiny bit i would be technically bending reality. Every enlighted being from the past lik jesus,moses,butist etc. All was said to have abilities so ill still keep an open mind. If you feel retarded from gas, comlpetly changing the way you look at life really helps Ur brain will think differently there for using different connections. Mine changed like a slap in the face and im lucky to alive and no white hair. It just got a little frosty

[MSipes7676]

I huffed gas when I was 11 and a half till I was almost 14. I would experience beautiful hallucinations both auditory and visual. It was quite addictive. Luckily for me a near death experience caused me to stop cold turkey. I was huffing gas because I was an abused child, physically, emotionally and sexually. One day after school I huffed and was standing up while doing so, thinking if I huffed too much I would not pass out with my face on the gas can and therefor die. Well, I woke up on the garage floor, covered in gasoline, about a gallon's worth and I did not know how long I had been unconscious. Most likely not that long. But that experience caused me to realize that death is quite real and what I was doing was absolutely stupid and about as dangerous as Russian roulette with not only one bullet in the gun but two. Anyhow, I did experience some mental dullness or deficit for about 6 months or so after I stopped. But that event changed my life in a good way. I started to drink only water, and have ever since. I began exercising, taking vitamins daily and eating more healthy. I also took particular vitamins that enhanced brain function and those that remyelinate the brain cells, which huffing causes demyelination, which basically is like stripping off the rubber cord on your vacuum and only having the bare wires exposed, it won't work, it shorts out. Myelin is a fatty covering that insulates nerve cells, or brain cells. Anyhow, I went on to recover completely, and actually I have an IQ that ranges from 119 to 140 depending on the test, conditions, etc. I graduated in the top 10 percent in High School, joined the Army, graduated as number 23 out of 279 Medical Laboratory technicians and could do just about anything I set my mind to doing. So, just because you damaged your brain, does not mean your brain cannot heal. Some brain cells do grow back, but more importantly brain cells find alternative connections, or make new connections and thus bypass dead or damaged cells. Do not give up on yourself, drink lots of water, your brain is the first organ to be effected by dehydration, take vitamins and take essential fatty acids. Read, exercise your brain as you would a muscle, it will and can grow stronger by forming new and more abundant connections, I am a living testament to that fact. Most importantly remember your not broke with no hope of getting well, you can heal the damage if you have not gone too long. I hope this helps. .

[nightfox420]

I will say out of all the things I have tried and out of any medication I've been on there was one thing that seemed to neutralize my brain and that was medical marijuana. Even tho I would rather not it seemed to stimulate my brain and my motor skills seemed to flow a lot more fluently. Being so young as I was I regret everyday one night my friend was sleeping and my parents were asleep and my friend went out to my garage and brought in a gas can and he went into my closet in my bed room and told me to come in and shut the door. He explained to me that if you put you mouth in the gas can hole and keep huffing it you will get high. Being so young and gullable I just watched him and then tried it myself it took about 30 huffs then I remember standing up really quick and saying I font feel right. He was just laughing and said your just high keep doing it. We huffed all night long and all the next day. From then on out I was irrevocably hooked! I huffed gas every single day till I was about in eighth grade going into my freshman year. I had a good group of friends I grew up with from kindergarten all the way to senior year. They all witnessed the transformation I had gone through after hugging gas all those years and didn't understand what was happening to me because I never told one person about my huffing addition I had. I was in my second year of high school in quire class and that's when it fully full blown hit me. I was singing a certain song along with the rest of the students when all of the sudden it just felt like my inner being just left my body. I was no longer Jeremy I was a completely different person. From then on I was just on pause the rest of my life. Never ever moving forward. My friends felt very bad for me and couldn't understand what happend to me. But they were always there for me and always took me out to hang with my friends and even helped me do my school work for me, and now I'm finally getting around to it. One night my friend was having a party at his house my senior year in high school and someone brought some medical marijuana over to share with everyone. We all sat in a huge circle and passed a few joints around. I didn't want to do it at first because of how ****** up I already was from huffing gas but I gave in and sat in the circle. When the joint was finally passed to me it was like the whole room froze and everyone was watching me waiting for me to take a hit. I took a few good rips of that baby and passed it almost instantly there was this warm glow that went from the bottom of my body all the way up to my head and it was like my brain took this huge deep breath like it was drowning for years and I could feel the engine in my brain starting to turn. It was the best feeling I had since I was a little fourth grader before I started huffing gas. I remember getting up from the circle and going down stairs to be alone for a moment and shoot some pool so I could take it all in what was happening to me. I was actually a living breathing thinking human being. My closest friend came down stairs after about ten min to check on me to make sure I was ok and he just stopped and looked at me with this blank stare that seemed forever with his mouth open. And all he could say was your normal.. your normal.. then he ran upstairs and was telling all my closest friends to hurry and come down stairs. They all bolted down stairs and my friend said look and he pointed to me. I could actually look at them in the eyes with an emotion human character that was all my own instead of the non functioning no emotion blank stare retard that they were use to. I never seen such fasination  before as I did as I seen in there eyes that night. It was a night ill never forget. So the next day came and I was slowly regressing back to my usual state of nothingness. Being that marijuana was a felony if you got caught I never did go back to smoking it nut it set me on the path to try and find something else legally that would do the same thing for me as marijuana did. Rest assured at 35 now I have just about tried everything the doctors could throw at me. I have been a lab rat for the better part of 15 years. On the plus side I am happy to say that I am a few weeks away from getting my medical marijuana card because my doctor is now curious to see how it will affect me since everything he and many other doctors have tried on me has failed and they are at a lost for Words. Now don't get me wrong Im not a stoner and I don't want to get high. I just want to feel human one more time like I did many years ago at my friends party and look my wife in the eyes and tell her thankyou from the bottom of my heart for loving me and for all that she has indured for me and to tell her I love her. Even if its just for a hour or so it would all be worth it to me. I am excited to experiment with marijuana in different ways and see what kind of results I get. I really do think there is a lot more to this plant that needs to be studied and researched, but that is why I'm conducting my own studies and research when I start. Looking forward for that key to unlock my dungeon door again so I can come out and say hi. Also might try that hbot that Jim was talking about too to just to see if any what kind of results will show. Anyways wow sorry for getting lost in the moment. Just wanted to share my experience as to what has worked for me in the position that me and Jim are in.

[Kyle31425]

You, have stopped me right now where I am. I was like 5 when I started Andy parents found me singing oh say can you see! To the dawn early light to a penguin . They caught me and then I went to my friends house to do it and just eventually stopped I forget why but did, today I did it again to see how I was as of me being 14 and remembered all the sights and noises KYLE STOP KYLE DONT STOP. And never knew how it started but then went on this post and you scared the **** out of me and I realized I should be ok since I didn't get hooked  and after I was done, I got the same guilt I did after I jack off.i realized I can't do what I want to to if I keep doing g this

[flipper336]

If you are refering to the Hbot, he is talking about a hyperbaric chamber. The same type of equipment that is used for scuba divers that get the ben's from surfacing to quick from deep depths. There is some controversy about it's use. There is no proof that it does anything and the FDA does not agree with its practice if you will.
I'm sorry to say that there is no way to reverse the damage huffing causes. When you slowly kill of your brain cells by depriving them of oxygen, which huffing does that is it. There is no way to repair dead brain matter.

[nightfox420]

I'm in the same boat as you Jim I got introduced to it when I was in fourth grade and was hooked after all the way till I was in eighth grade. Completly ruined my life. I never was nor till this day at 35 am the same person. I know how you feel. You just want to be normal again. You wish your brain would just work and wake up again. It ***** waking up everyday just feeling blank. Like you I've been trying all these years trying to figure out how to get my brain back. Maybe we can help each other. I haven't heard of what you mentioned above but I can tell you I've tried everything from high doses of fish oils, vitamin bs. I've tried every kind of brain pill to help your memory that you can get at a super supplements store. I've tried every high doeses of antidepressents there practically is , I've tried detoxifing my body and brain to the max and non of them seemed to work.  I'm lucky enough to have a loving wife and she too is trying to help me.

[jimbean23]

My doctors and psychiatrists have been trying to treat the symptoms for 6 years and getting no where, that's why Iv been looking into hbot to see if it could repair my brain.

[flipper336]

There is no way of reversing the effects of huffing. The high you felt was you depriving your brain of oxygen, which resulted in brain damage and the effect or symptoms that you are now having to deal with. The only thing you can do now is to talk with your doctor about ways to "manage" your symptoms.

[Jk4Jesus]

Hello my name is John. "I can relate to all of this and more but the ages, circumstances, and the lure or the willingness to try it? It is strange but I was recollecting this topic with my friend that I huffed with. We were around 14. What I am getting at is, we did it in my back yard and tripped out, so we kept doing it. I do not remember what was the premise to do it in the first place. It was not like some of the other stories where it was planned. I believe it has to do with the spiritual battle of the legion of satan. Like preying on our vulnerability at a young age. I did not plan to talk to my friend about this today, or go to this website. I had no idea it was this widespread and similiar in stories. It is a little frightening because of the damage it did to so many and still doing to so many people. Our outcomes of health and a sense of hope was taken from us. I believe in the power of our lord and savior Jesus Christ. If you do not believe at least the power and healing properties of being positive and at least move on your way of thinking for strength and hope. Attitude is everything. I can go on and on about my addictions to meth, then heroin, car accidents, coma, but I am still here. Why?? Because I have a purpose to for now, trying to understand myself and everything good comes from love. The more you love others, the more happiness you will achieve. I mean huffing gas by putting your mouth on the gas can and breathing in and out, that is what I did, and my parents be like, why does it smell like gas again. It is not like weed or cocaine or alcohol, the usual gateway drugs. I mean, let us go huff some gas is not promoted or glamorized as much. That is the strange part to me, because I was not aware of how huge of a epidemic this is. I am sure the internet is a factor now but back in 1982, it was not. Love the website and plan on getting more involved to help others. I was going to bed and just started typing so I apologize if it is a little bit all over the place."