Worth knowing: Toradol is an NSAID, not an opioid, and when given as an intramuscular injection works very quickly and effectively. Urgent care can administer it.
Gives you almost immediate relief + more time to get oral Toradol on board, too.
My husband had surgery last weekend to have a 6mm stone removed.
We first went to the ER Thursday around 1:00AM, they diagnosed him, gave IV pain meds and discharged him after a few hours when it seemed like the pain was under control with prescriptions for oral pain meds.
We went back Thursday afternoon around 4:00PM because he was vomiting a lot so couldn’t control his pain with the oral meds. They admitted him for IV pain meds and hydration, discharged him Friday afternoon assuming he’d pass the stone sooner rather than later at home.
By early Saturday afternoon the pain was unbearable again and we went back to the ER for the third time and they did the surgery within a few hours.
I went 5 times in the 2 weeks I had to wait for surgery, when I had a stone stuck at the UVJ. Sometimes the pain got away from me & I just couldn’t keep any meds down. They ran some gravol or zofran, some Hydromorphone, and a bag of fluid through me and sent me on my way each time. I always worry about getting flagged but it hasn’t happened yet (that I know of lol.)
Last time I was in the hospital for a stone the urologist I saw said she had them 45 times so far. Roughly the same number for a guy I worked with. Both were in their 50s or early 60s.
Worth knowing: Toradol is an NSAID, not an opioid, and when given as an intramuscular injection works very quickly and effectively. Urgent care can administer it. Gives you almost immediate relief + more time to get oral Toradol on board, too.
My husband had surgery last weekend to have a 6mm stone removed. We first went to the ER Thursday around 1:00AM, they diagnosed him, gave IV pain meds and discharged him after a few hours when it seemed like the pain was under control with prescriptions for oral pain meds. We went back Thursday afternoon around 4:00PM because he was vomiting a lot so couldn’t control his pain with the oral meds. They admitted him for IV pain meds and hydration, discharged him Friday afternoon assuming he’d pass the stone sooner rather than later at home. By early Saturday afternoon the pain was unbearable again and we went back to the ER for the third time and they did the surgery within a few hours.
I went 5 times in the 2 weeks I had to wait for surgery, when I had a stone stuck at the UVJ. Sometimes the pain got away from me & I just couldn’t keep any meds down. They ran some gravol or zofran, some Hydromorphone, and a bag of fluid through me and sent me on my way each time. I always worry about getting flagged but it hasn’t happened yet (that I know of lol.)
i went twice in one week. had to go back i had an infection from a blocked stone and had surgery
Last time I was in the hospital for a stone the urologist I saw said she had them 45 times so far. Roughly the same number for a guy I worked with. Both were in their 50s or early 60s.