RESULTS: In 6 patients, the mirtazapine doses ranged from 10 to 30 times the maximum recommended dose, and there were no serious adverse effects of overdose.Two patients at special risk, a 90-year-old man and a 3-year-old child, took higher-than-usual doses without serious sequelae.ONCLUSION: After an overdose of substantial multiples of mirtazapine that exceed the maximum recommended daily dosage, the new antidepressant mirtazapine appears to be safe in a limited number of cases.
The drugs that are approved to reduce the pain of diabetic peripheral neuropathy are expensive. But your doctor can prescribe much less costly drugs that might save you thousands of dollars and may work equally well. No drugs do anything more than cut the pain. To reverse the neuropathy, you have to act. A pair of articles that the American College of Physicians published in its November 4 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine compares our choices and recommends our options.
How to Find Nerve Pain Relief. Medications are used to control the pain associated with peripheral diabetic neuropathy. Unfortunately, at this time, there arenât any medications to treat and prevent diabetic nerve pain (another name for diabetic neuropathy); the only way to do that is through careful control of blood glucose levels. There are many medication options to relieve pain associated with peripheral nerve damage.