600 mg Ibuprofen taken with a glass of water and a little food. Didn’t the doctor suggest the same? Ibuprofen is usually magical. However, before you pop the pills…is it like this every month? What time of the month is your pain the worst? Any chance you are pregnant? Are you bleedng unusually or not cycling at all? If it is time for your period are you cramping in the center (uteris area) also, like a typical period, unless you don’t get cramps in the middle usually.
One side pain can mean a lot of things, some dangerous. It can mean endometrosis, but I have a lot of other ideas in my head like luteal cyst, cyst from PCOS, cyst from another cause, ectopic pregnancy, fibroids in a bad spot, or colon. Is it your left side? Endo is not scene on ultrasound, did the tech snap a lot of pictures? I don’t really think of endometriosis as in beginning, medium or late stages. Either the tissue is in odd places adding discomfort or it isn’t.
If it truly is endometriosis or bads period cramps I still say ibuprofen and seriously recommend you don’t try to just deal with the pain. But, if you were told to wait it out, meaning don’t medicate, then I strongly suspect your doctor does not think it is endometriosis. If it is very bad, you can ask to take at least tylenol while you wait for results.
Do not take aspirin whatever you do.
I am not a doctor, but I am very serious about not taking aspirin, and also recommend no alcohol.