Incidentally, I also suffer from severe flu-like symptoms from the shot I take weekly for my Multiple Sclerosis. The other two medications available for MS have side effects, so there's no point in switching.

It all gets very discouraging. I know that when we fiddle with body and brain chemistry that it's probably inevitable that something is thrown out of whack, but shouldn't there be a better way?

Don't get me wrong - I would put up with pretty much any side effect to keep depression away. I think I'd even wear false teeth if all my real ones fell out from the dry mouth. I realize that the holy grail for drug companies is an antidepressant without side effects, so I'm sure that they're working like crazy on it. At least, I hope so.