Hello. My gilrifriend is 21, and is experiencing a lot of sharp, throbbing pain in the abdominal region on her lower left side for the last two days. She had started new birth control, Introvale, 2 weeks ago but started experiencing sharp pains as of 8 days ago. She called up her gynecologist two days ago who recommended she get off the pill. Her pain has increased after stopping, but the pain hasn't seemed to subside. She has trouble moving because of the pain, and she feels like it is coming from the kidney area. She has no significant medical issues aside from anemia and is required to take iron and vitamin c supplements due to low energy after seeing another doctor from chronic fatigue. Her family has a history of hypothyroidism. At this very moment, we are debating to go to the emergency room, but are hesitant as we're not sure if they'll simply see us and then prescribe us painkillers and send us home with nothing but a big bill. Should we go to urgent care instead? I'm not sure how to proceed from here, but she is in a lot of pain, and will probably go unless we're told otherwise, to the ER in a few hours, as it is 3:30 AM in the morning. Please help.