Do you treat migraine with aura if there is not an associated headache/pain?

It is officially called migraine aura without headache, but I like to refer to it as isolated migraine aura. Although a migraine aura can be visual, somatosensory, or involve speech, the presentation in practice, in my experience, is always visual.

The best way to diagnose it is by having the patien...

I do if it interferes with quality of life.

I do not recommend abortive medications for aura. There is no evidence that migraine abortive treatments shorten the duration of aura. I do not think that they do. Anecdotally I have had some patients report that taking NSAIDs or a triptan at the aura onse...