Ever burn yourself with poppers?

[NHeat]

Last night I was gooning hard. I was in a Zoom with a bunch of hot guys stroking and huffing. I got a little eager and my poppers splashed onto my upper lip. Today I feel like my lip is burned. Sucks but I guess that's the price to play. 
 

Only other poppers issue was when they spilled in my pocket during some ABS darkroom adventures. Didn't hurt my skin but bleached and ruined my shorts. Oh well. 

[Hungryforbbc]

Had a date mix up the poppers and the lube he poured the poppers all over the outside of my hole before I realized what was happening and immediately jumped into the shower. Fortunately I didn’t have any serious burns but it sure fucked up the mood. Now I make sure the two are always on different tables 

[NHeat]

Damn! That sucks. Glad you didn't get hurt.

[fuckyouraw777]

On 9/27/2025 at 12:20 AM, Hungryforbbc said:

Had a date mix up the poppers and the lube he poured the poppers all over the outside of my hole before I realized what was happening and immediately jumped into the shower. Fortunately I didn’t have any serious burns but it sure fucked up the mood. Now I make sure the two are always on different tables 

If there's ever such a thing as a cross between porn and comedy, one could easily make a scene based on that scenario; glad you caught it in time.

[meetme]

I really think we should call them what it says on the bottle, video head cleaner.  H W Bush took poppers off the market.  Amyl was a delightful medically used compound., for what , 70 years or so. Way down the chemical road is anything you’d find for sale today. Completely unregulated, formerly sold as room deodorizer, the only thing you can be sure of is it cost Pennies to produce.  You buy those brown bottles based on an old memory of something you may have enjoyed a long time ago.  If a guy walks into my room at the baths and asks for poppers before he touches me, he’s just another airplane glue sniffer and the sex ends there

[viking8x6]

I never had any issues with them until about 2 weeks ago, when I got some rather nasty burns (not yet healed) on the skin at the entrance to my nostrils. I certainly didn't splash any on me, but it is possible that my nose touched the (possibly moist) bottle. I've been thinking about the incident and doing a bit of research since.

What was different than other times I used them? 1. I used to store them in the refrigerator, but I haven't been doing that recently because of a shared living situation. 2. I was using them more frequently, and therefore opening and closing the bottle more often. 3. I was using them from a small bottle that I was refilling from a larger bottle (to avoid opening the larger one so often).

Buckle your seatbelts, time for some science!

Poppers decompose fairly easily (fact). At least one of the by-products of decomposition catalyzes the decomposition and makes it proceed faster (fact). At least one of the by-products of decomposition is nitric acid (fact). I've never had a problem with burns from a fresh bottle of poppers, even when I spilled them on my skin (fact). At the time I got burned, I had noticed during both that session and the session before that the poppers had a "sharp" smell to my nose (like horseradish or wasabi), which is characteristic of strongly acidic vapors. My hypothesis is that the burns are caused by nitric acid, which comes from the degradation of the poppers over time. I'm planning to do some experimentation (not on my nose!) to probe this further, when I get around to it. 

Further note: Some poppers are sold with a small round white ball in the bottle. I don't know for sure, but I believe this is probably a small ball of an alkaline substance such as lye or washing soda, which can absorb the acid as degradation occurs, thereby keeping it from catalyzing further degradation. There is a patent from the 1950s on using such alkalies for this exact purpose.

[Poz50something]

Sure have had this issue, but that was about 26 years ago. I spent a weekend in the summer getting rogered and railed, by a Randy Southern gent and his partner, when I lived in Athens, Ga., going to UGA (don’t ask me to repeat the barks from the cartoon dog at the movie theatre at Tate Center -if you know, you know. I have my limits.) I think it was around Labour Day that it happened…. Even then, I was a barebacker, even if I wasn’t aware of it. I spent 3 whole days fucking on poppers, and I had burn marks around my nostrils. 
 

I wonder if refrigerating the popper bottle helps to prolong the freshness? Does that delay the degradation of the formula? I have discovered the super sniffer, and it has been a revolution in popper use safety.  It can prevent spills and the dreaded burn around the nostrils. 

[Fprefect570]

I was getting fucked in a sling and told the dude that I was going to take a hit. He must have not heard me because as soon as I unscrewed the cap he JAMMED into me and I spilled them all over my chest. We got it cleaned up pretty quickly but I had a minor chemical burn on my chest for like a week after. 

[MascTop]

If by “burn” you mean spill half a bottle down your nostril laying down… yes, I have. It was brutal.

[bbslutdanny]

I've burned my nostrils before and it was the worst... felt like tiny papercuts. 

[Pozguyinchi]

I have been burned a few times.  Usually when I am using a full bottle. Usually while getting bred. I won’t have my top slow down or do it in between positions. I have never had them on any other part of my body. Just my nostril area. The last time was about 6 months ago. A very dom top came up behind me at a group thing and just rammed in me as hard has he could and started to fuck me. He was the first fuck of the night so I grabbed my bottle and tried to huff some poppers quick. The bottle was new and I ended up inhaling it into my nose. It burned and I started to sneeze and couldn’t stop for about 15 minutes. The top pulled out and moved on but I ended up getting his load later. Goals. Lol

[fuzzybttm]

I've burned myself before, it's not pleasant.  It's happened twice that I can recall, and both times I was lying on my back, getting fucked, and I craned my neck forward/head up to take a hit of poppers from a full bottle and mis-judged the angle of how "upright" I had to keep the bottle.