I am a diabetic and use toradol shots every 8 days, is there a large risk?

As a physician (psychiatrist - MD/PhD) I had to answer that question for myself tonight. It isn't really that difficult to find info on the web if you create a "search string" that includes the basics, but won't bring every site where Diabetes I and @ are mentioned.

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I'm a Type 2 Diabetic. I know all about how Toradol should never be administered continuously for more than 5 days. I don't think taking a break that's too brief and t'd starting again is a good idea (says the guy who can get any drug, in any quantity at any time However, this isn't about how to get around the Controlled Substance regs, but rather a STRONG MESSAGE (I hope) that Diabetics should never take Toradol. I had the misfortune to have some dental work on Friday afternoon and then a severe Migraine Headache with nausea at about noon. I was thinking about what I might ADD to the Percocet 10/325 that could help. Promethazine 25mg (aka Phenergan tabs) always increases the analgesia provided by an opiate and it's calming. I felt better, but still hurt quite a bit.

I remembered Toradol from a recent patient who had Chronic Migraine and probably Migraine Variant headaches. His internist wrote for 120 Toradol 10mg tabs. I put astop to that, but I looked up Toral and Diabetes. Same search anyone can do. There's too much chance of things going wrong, in several organ systems, to justify this. I finally called another doc who lives in my bldg and asked him to prescribe Dilaudid 4mg tabs #30. Starting dose is 2-4mg, every 4-6 hours, but since I take Percocet frequently, I needed to start with the 4mg dose. There's no excuse for what my patient's internist did. I told hits parents (he is about 15) that this definitely WAS malpractice. If your Diabetes in under good to excellent control, don't mess with it by messing with Toradol. Too many physicians and dentists are afraid to prescribe the drugs patients in chronic pain need. I don't write many narcotics scripts, but I do write for Xanax. Ambien, Dexedrine or Dextrostat, Adderall (only for its from other docs; I don't like a lot about Adderall). The DEA-type people give is shrinks a fairly wide-berth since we use so many meds for off-label uses, but still, patents have hold me about pharmacists giving them a hard time with amphetamine scripts, primarily. I do write one or two scripts for Percocet 10/325 for two longterm patients who also are chronic headache sufferers. I've been here for decades, so local pharmacists call to verify because, well, I'm not above losing track of things, On m,y desk a pad of scripts looks like a marble in a 100 gal. aquarium.