A DAD of two who inhaled 80 Nos balloons a day may never walk again.
Ben Clarke, 31, also became intensely paranoid and had hallucinations after using the laughing gas so much.
The sales manager, from Eastchurch, Kent, spent as much as £3,000 on the laughing gas and even sold personal items to afford it.
But he became so paranoid of things appearing in his home, such as a visiting priest, that he slept in his car.
He began using the drug six months ago but has now moved away to live with family to try to get off it.
Ben told KentOnline: "The only time I would leave the house was to go and get more gas."
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He said he would Google the side effects but was shocked to find adverts to buy the cannisters.
Dad Ben added: "For the past couple of months I've been unable to walk because of the nerve endings in my feet being ruined from doing too much nitrous oxide.
"Doctors have said the damage might not be reversible.
"I want to speak out about the dangerous effect it can have and if I help one person that's enough.
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"I was at a low point in my life when I started doing nitrous oxide and it made things so much worse.
"It was so bad that I ended up being arrested and sectioned as I thought a priest was coming to my home or heads were peering round my bed."
Last month shocking X-ray images showed a man's badly-damaged spine as a result of laughing gas, which left him unable to walk.
The 32-year-old unnamed man went to the emergency department after he experienced a "tingling in his arms and legs" for six weeks.
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Doctors were stunned to hear he hadn't been able to walk for two whole weeks before visiting the hospital.
Two months before showing up at the department, the man had starting inhaling nitrous oxide — also known as laughing gas — on a daily-basis.
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