Holly Grigg-Spall is author of Sweetening the Pill, or how we got hooked on hormonal birth control. She came off the pill when she was 27, after experiencing a range of physical and mental health side effects, including "frequent urinary tract infections, headaches, really bad fatigue, lots of colds and infections ... depression symptoms, really bad anxiety, panic attacks, and worrying about social situations of leaving the house," she says.
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