Endometriosis: what you can actually get

This page is information, not medical advice, and it cannot tell you whether you qualify for anything. Only a clinician can prescribe, and only a study team can enrol you. If you are in severe pain or bleeding heavily, seek care now.

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Open today: what a doctor can prescribe

These are approved by the FDA for endometriosis pain specifically. That means a doctor can write you a prescription. It does not mean they are right for you, and both have a hard time limit because of bone loss.

Orilissa

elagolix — A daily pill that lowers the hormones driving the disease. Approved for moderate to severe endometriosis pain.

Time-limited: 6 months at the higher dose, 24 months at the lower one, because it thins your bones.

FDA label, DailyMed

Myfembree

relugolix, estradiol and norethindrone acetate — One pill, once a day, that combines the hormone blocker with add-back hormones. Approved for moderate to severe endometriosis pain.

Time-limited: 24 months total, because of continued bone loss that may not come back.

Carries the FDA's strongest warning, for blood clots and strokes. If you smoke, are over 35, or have had a clot, this matters enormously. Ask about it directly.

FDA label, DailyMed

Older options are still standard and still work for many women: the pill, hormonal IUDs, progestins, and surgery to remove lesions. They are not new, so nobody writes headlines about them. That is not the same as them not working.

You can knock today: studies recruiting now

There are 159 studies recruiting for endometriosis worldwide right now, and 29 of them have a site in the United States. That gap is real: most endometriosis research is happening in Europe. This list came from the public registry on 22 September 2026.

This narrows a list. It does not screen you. Whether you can actually join depends on things no filter can read — past surgeries, what you have already tried, other conditions. Only the study team can answer that, so the last line of every card is how to reach them.

Where are you?How old are you?What are you looking for?

Still being built: real, and not yours yet

These are the ones you may have read about. Every one of them is real. Not one of them is something you can get today, and the gap between a headline and a prescription is usually years.

Not availableENDO-205

EndoCyclic Therapeutics

A non-hormonal drug designed to clear the lesions themselves rather than mask the pain.

FDA cleared it to BEGIN human testing in March 2026. The first study is in healthy volunteers, not in women with endometriosis.

Contemporary OB/GYN

Not availableHerResolve blood test

HerAnova

A blood test to find endometriosis without surgery. Reported 94.4% accuracy in a 298-woman study.

Not FDA cleared. The company said it planned to file with the FDA in late 2026.

Pharmaceutical Technology

Not available99mTc-maraciclatide imaging

Serac Healthcare

A scan that lights up the inflammation of endometriosis, including the shallow lesions ultrasound misses.

Has FDA fast track designation, which speeds up review. It is not approved.

Pharmaceutical Technology

As of today there is no FDA-approved blood test, scan, or swab that can tell you whether you have endometriosis. Several are close. None has crossed. If someone sells you one, that is what you are buying.

The words that move an appointment

The single biggest thing standing between women and treatment is not a missing drug. It is the years it takes to be believed. These are the sentences that move an appointment forward, because they ask for a decision instead of describing a feeling.

I want endometriosis considered specifically. Please write in my notes whether it was ruled in or ruled out, and why.
My pain stops me doing normal things on __ days a month. Here is the diary.
What would have to be true for you to refer me to a gynaecologist who treats endometriosis?
If we try this treatment, how long before we know it failed, and what is the next step if it does?
Is there a reason not to refer me for imaging with someone who specifically looks for endometriosis?

Take a written symptom diary. A page of dates beats an adjective every time.

Updated 22 September 2026. Study list refreshed from the public registry on 22 September 2026. Nothing here is sold, sponsored or tracked.