We Need More Research And Public Awareness Please.

My name is Patrice.  I have been living with migraines for the better part of my life.  During that time I have been to many doctors, psychologists, neurologists and psychiatrists because it seems to me doctors like to experiment with you and meds.  I have been on every med known to mankind for what they thought would help migraines.  From antidepressents to SSI's.  None of them helped and had many side effects.  People don't care.   Now I am on Treximet, Imitrex Nasal Spray and Relpax.  These meds help but once you take one for the pain, at least for me you get in a drunken stooper and have to lie down.  Once I get a migraine, my jaw locks and I cannot adjust my vision, but yet people think it's nothing it's just a headache is what I've heard.  You hear tv shows about cancer, MS and all other debilitating diseases but never migraines, never do they talk to someone like me  who with migrianes cannot live a normal day to day life.  I fear traveling because one of the triggers is motion sickness and excessive heat in a car even with the air conditioning, there are so many triggers for me I should be living in a cave.  But yet people think its nothing.  Before SS Disability granted me disability I had to fight with a lawyer to get it now they are reviewing my case and I fear them taking it away from me.  We need greater understanding about this illness.  Back in Oct. I had a brain MRI and it showed slight grey matter disease which I found out is common in migrainers and migraine sufferers are more suseptible to strokes.  We need the public to hear more about this disease and for doctors to do more research and stop using us as experiments.  We need help.