Why Women in Pain Are Still Begging Doctors to Listen

Abigail Libers, 39, experienced her first string of daily headaches when she was just 12 years old. As her pain intensified, her mom booked appointments with a doctor, a chiropractor, and an acupuncturist. "We talked to so many people trying to figure out what was wrong with me," Libers recalls. "None of them said the word migraine." Libers, a freelance journalist, vividly remembers one of her first consultations with an older male doctor. "I told him I had a headache every day. He was like, 'Every day? That's not possible.' I felt like he thought I wasn't telling the truth." Frustrated by the . . .