[medic82]

Is there any difference between ketoprofen and toradol?
Do they belong to the same family and if i said i'm allergic to ketoprofen and was given toradol is it all right??

*enquiry was raised because the name is almost the same and they belong to Nsaids right?

[jennifermw]

Well Ibuprphen is an NSAID are u aletgic to advil? Both of these drugs are NSAIDS but are two defferent meds. If your allergic to only Ketopofen and not Toradol or Advil, then your only allergic to Ketopofen. If you have reactions to all these meds then you made be allergic to all NSAIDS.

[Phospheros]

I don't think there is any way to know if you'll be allergic to Toradol or not, just have something else with you the first time you take it.

As far as differences go, Toradol is a *much more powerful* NSAID, and they rarely use it for more than 5-7 days on an outpatient basis as it has a very high risk of GI bleeding with prolonged use. I've had it a few times, it's a fairly good pain killer as well as top-notch antiinflammatory. I never had any problems on it, but the longest I was on it was 40 days (and this was before they made those guidelines about limiting use to 5 days).



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