Who cares about women in pain and why?

I am a woman in pain. I have lived with trigeminal neuralgia, a facial pain disorder, for over 30 years.
I am very lucky, the worst part of the pain, severe constant and sporadic, lightning sharp pains, is gone but I remain with severe eye usage and movement pain.
I have experienced firsthand the discrimination women experience when they go to a doctor complaining of chronic pain. Pain is invisible, making it hard for some to believe/accept but doctors are there to help not to judge. Sadly, too many women, and men also for that matter, find they have to justify and defend their pain when they go for help.
I started Women In Pain Awareness Group on facebook but also hope that this blog will be a place for all to tell of their pain experiences, and life experiences while living with pain.
We have a choice: the pain can control us or we can take control of the pain. We can become victims of the disability pain causes or we can become the boss.