A teacher was left struggling to breath and unable to move after being spiked.
Sarah Croft was on a night out with her friends in Wickersley, South Yorkshire at the end of September when she suddenly fell ill.
The 36-year-old put her head down on a table and realised she couldn't move, before she began struggling to breath, Examiner Live reported.
Now Ms Croft is speaking out after police said three women were spiked in Sheffield over the weekend.
Ms Croft explained: "I want people to know it is happening a lot closer to home than you realise."
The teacher said she had been drinking but was not drunk when she first started feeling ill.
"I just came over all funny," said Ms Croft.
"And I went and sat outside at a table and put my head down, but then I couldn't lift myself back up.
"I kept stopping breathing and my friend would have to nudge me to make me take a big intake of breath."
Thankfully, one of Ms Croft's friends, a nurse, put her into the recovery position.
By this point, the teacher, who had been enjoying her night out just 20 minutes before, couldn't move.
She explained: "I couldn't move a muscle in my body. I couldn't lift my head off the ground. I couldn't stop anyone from touching me."
The teacher, who was still fully aware of everything happening to her, said it was terrifying to feel so helpless.
"I kept having panic attacks and crying," she said.
Ms Croft was taken to Rotherham General Hospital and has since made a full recovery.
Se says the incident has left her shaken and made it difficult for her to enjoy the one night out she has been on since.
"Not a lot does with me, but it has really knocked me for six," said Ms Croft.
She hopes nobody else has to face what she went through.
Ms Croft said: "If it weren't for my best friend refusing to leave my side, who knows where I could have ended up or what could have happened to me. I was one of the few very lucky and very fortunate ones.
"These spikings have got to stop."
Figures obtained by the BBC show that there were 26,000 reported incidents in England and Wales since 2015.
Many incidents of drink spiking go unreported because people are unaware they’ve fallen victim to it, meaning the true number is likely much higher.
