Ever burn yourself with poppers?

[IronPig]

Nostril burns are a good cue to upgrade to a topper or take a tolerance break.

[Pozzible]

On 9/29/2025 at 2:32 PM, viking8x6 said:

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.

I wonder if you can buy those balls anywhere. If that’s their purpose, I’d love them in all my poppers. 

Does refrigeration really help? I’ve heard mixed things. 

[Pozzible]

On 9/29/2025 at 7:58 PM, MascTop said:

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

Yep. Me too. 

[sluttony]

Not for years.

About 18 years ago, I was very drunk, had come back to my hotel room in London still horny from a session and broke out the poppers to huff whilst I wanked.

At some point I must have managed to unknowingly spill them on my cock before falling asleep! The burns were quite nasty, and these poppers were freshly opened that night.

Then the old-school formula was banned and different variants started to appear. They had less of a buzz, lasted nowhere near as long, and smelled foul by comparison. And I had to stop for a while as whatever that particular make up was, made my nose run for days afterwards.

I came back to them a few years later, but found that products such as Old English fucked with my eyes after use. I'd wake up with pain in them, and with a blurring starting to appear in the middle of my vision. I read somewhere that they were particularly nasty for causing retinal damage.

Now, I order them from France and use Isoamyl Nitrite and I have to say they are very strong but give me none of the previous symptoms. They also have an old-school smell to them.

And as a side-note, I have always wiped the top of the bottle before inhaling. I learned years ago that by not doing this, you left yourself open to burning if you made contact. It's a habit I still have, though I also use a topped now, too.