The birth control pills that she tried lowered her sex drive and made her depression worse, and the vaginal ring made her so “ragey” that she only lasted seven days with it.Īfter two emergency surgeries to treat her endometriosis, Zar was prescribed a hormonal intrauterine device (IUD) to help control the disease - and she’s still using one over a decade later. “Most of them seemed to amplify my mood shifts,” she said. Erika Zar, 45, tried many different kinds of birth control before she settled on her current one.
