Experiences with Toradol

Everyone's experiences would be different. Trust me. Like what kind of effects are you having? and what are you worried about?

I am not sure it is classified as a pain pill and is more in the category of high dose, anti inflammatory. I also cannot tolerate the usual meds for pain and this is what they gave me instead when I have had any surgery, including a mastectomy.  It is very strong and, at the time, was not given for more than 72 hours because there was some indication of liver/kidney damage in the trials. I actually did not feel anything similar to the standard sort of pain pill...no sleepiness, or dis orientation, etc., but it did help with the pain enough that I could at least function. I was glad it was available.

I hope that helps a little. Sorry you are experiencing such bad pain

It's not your typical pain medication. It's not a narcotic. It's an NSAID, like motrin/ibuprofen but MUCH stronger.

It's definitely different with everyone. I know someone who takes it fairly often without any issues. I've had it twice and I felt so sick and unable to function. All other pain relief causes me no problems.

Toradol is great if you don't have bleeding disorders. It shouldn't make you drowsy or loopy.

The more you take a narcotic, the less effect it will have as far as making you loopy, ie. euphoric. The more pain you're in, the less it will work unless you take a higher dose.

There are a lot of different pain meds, narcotic and not, and some people can function normally on one narcotic and be looped out of their mind on another. I take oxy and opana--a long acting narcotic for chronic pain. If you saw me in public, you'd have no idea I was taking as much medication as I am. 

If I take a dose of codeine cough syrup, I'm out of my mind. I just can't take it. 

I am allergic to morphine, and I think codeine is just too close to morphine. There are lots of synthetics that don't cause reactions. I do have a list of ones I can't take. I have been given them in the past by nurses that didn't check my band. I knew because when I woke up, my chest was really tight, I couldn't breathe, and I was throwing PVCs on my heart monitor. I also saw the nurse's face when she looked at the chart and then back at me. She shouldn't ever play poker. I was fine, so I didn't tell anyone.

I can't take vicodin. I get itchy, feel bad, it doesn't work. I was fine on nortab, which is the same active ingredient made by a different manufacturer. 

I'm a redhead, and we have a genetic mutation that makes pain meds and anesthesia meds not work as well. Our livers process the meds so fast that not enough of the drug gets into our bloodstream. Being a lightweight is a good thing. If you had a painful chronic illness (I pray you never do) then you won't have to worry about needing a lot of drugs to deal with the pain. 


I'm so sorry you have a kidney stone. They can be horrible. I remember when Carla, Burning Feather's husband got that horrible one and was so sick for months. 

Fresh squeezed lemonaide is really good at dissolving kidney stones. I had several in my kidney, and they would pass and hurt. My doctor told me about the lemonaide, and within a year, the kidney stones were completely gone. The lemonaide and the vomiting from chronic pancreatitis has done a number on my teeth. Rinse after drinking lemonaide. 

I tried it a couple times. Although it took care of the pain, the dizziness and nausea were not worth the relief for me. I hope you can find the minimum dose that works for you.

I took it the last time I had a costochondritis flare and it took down my pain from "I'm dying of a heart attack" to "I feel amazing" in like ten minutes.

My husband took it when he had a kidney stone and same deal.

We both wish we could take it for regular pain. No side effects and it works great for both of us - better than anything else we've tried. I hadn't felt that good in ages.

It sounds like we are in the minority though.

Toradol has been my go-to pain med for migraines for several years. The triptans cause too many side effects for me - basically I feel like I'm having a heart attack when I take them. Narcotics cause severe vomiting and itching, so I try to avoid them. I've never had any reaction of loopiness or nausea with the toradol. I usually take it in pill form but have had a few injections over the years too. (Fwiw, tramadol does make me loopy and nauseated, but I took it as a sleep aid and not for pain relief.)

When I worked on a post surgical floor Toradol was amazing for helping when narcotics didn't.

I have prescriptions for both injection and pill form.  Although I haven't taken pill form in a long time because the pill was not effective for me, toradol injections helps greatly.  Once again, it's effects are different on each individual.   

I had an IM shot of it once in my Dr's office for severe abd pain. It worked really well.

After my hyst, I had a PCA pump of morphine plus scheduled IV Toradol injections. I noticed nausea after each Toradol injection 3 times, so I refused it the next time when I was aware enough to put two and two together and the nausea stopped (so I know it wasn't the morphine).

I've given it IV many times and didn't really see a large correlation between that and nausea with my patients in general. Everyone is different.

When drug seekers (I'm talking actual drug seekers, not those with legitimate needs, so no one need fly off the handle about pain management because I'm the first person to not give a shit whether someone is faking it or not) find out Toradol isn't a narcotic, it's hilarious to see how it suddenly doesn't work any more and they need dilaudid STAT. Eyeroll

. My question to you is when you get a script for the injection is it difficult to inject yourself? I had one for B12 and that was just under the skin, but I hated doing it. Obviously with a migraine you'll do anything to stop the pain. Was your doctor okay with this or was he/she difficult with the plan for the injection prescription?  Thanks so much in advance.

Debbie in MD.
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My Toradol is taken for generalized pain. To answer your question as long as I do not allow my pain to get severe I do not have a problem with self injecting. On the other hand when I'm trying to ignore my body and pain, and allow the pain to become severe I can't do it myself (but this is rare). I've had the same doctor 20 years or more and have been taking Toradol probably the last 10 years. I prefer the Toradol because it is not narcotic and specifically ask for it because to me it works well. My doctor does not have any problems prescribing it. As stated above by pjaye Toradol isn't commonly prescribed as it should only be used short term. I believe it will depend on your relationship with your doctor. The main problem I've ran into with Toradol injections is the prior authorization requested by insurance. Even after acquiring the authorization the insurance company will only want to cover about 5 days, so I have gotten to the point of paying cash for each prescription which works out to be about $20 more for a month's supply.