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chriswaco t1_iyukvan wrote

When I had my first kidney stone they gave me Demerol. I went from wanting to die from pain to flirting with the nurse in about three minutes. Wonderful stuff. The second time they gave me morphine, which was also good but constipating, and then Dilaudid, which almost stopped my breathing by the time it became effective.

In all cases they tried Toradol first, which was worthless.

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StampedingTurtles24 t1_iyv8xoc wrote

Toradol is an NSAID, it's works mostly for pain due inflammation, hints it's class. I use it for specific patients such when they have a lung resection and have a chest tube or two on that same side. 9 out of 10 times they go anywhere from 7-10/10 pain to the more tolerable 3ish area. Had a 22yo kid before and no narcotic would touch him, any movement would give him excruciating pain. After a dose of toradol he finally felt like he could function.

All situational really

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DryEyes4096 t1_iyyj696 wrote

For the kidney stone I had, I had morphine and it made me go from a 10 on the pain scale to a 0 and I felt rather euphoric. I had a surgery on the ball of my left femeur to remove a benign osteoid osteoma tumor and they gave me Demerol...it worked fine, no pain, but it felt dirty and disoriented me in a way that morphine didn't.

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rberg57 t1_iyuwx0h wrote

Agreed! Toradol is a placebo!!!

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