{"id":541628,"date":"2026-03-24T04:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/541628\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T04:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:08:08","slug":"south-carolina-doctors-highlight-undiagnosed-endometriosis-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/541628\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina doctors highlight undiagnosed endometriosis cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) \u2014 March is recognized as Endometriosis Awareness Month in the United States, highlighting a condition that impacts millions of women each year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Endometriosis occurs when tissue from a woman\u2019s uterus ends up in other parts of the body. Novant Health OBGYN doctors in South Carolina say the condition is problematic because of the pain and discomfort it causes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Women face several factors that make it difficult to know whether they have the condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Pierce said women who think they may be dealing with symptoms consistent with endometriosis should speak to their medical professional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt starts in adolescence, and so if you\u2019ve lived with it your whole life, you may end up thinking \u2018that\u2019s just me\u2019 when in actuality it\u2019s endometriosis, and you\u2019re having moderate to severe symptoms, but you just don\u2019t put it together,\u201d Dr. Tyler Pierce, an OBGYN with Novant Health, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCSC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) \u2014 March is recognized as Endometriosis Awareness Month in the United States, highlighting a condition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,242334,3,242335,5614,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-541628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-endometriosis-awareness-month","tag-news","tag-novant-health-obgyn","tag-south-carolina","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}