attributed to another disorder— international classification of headache disorders most children with abdominal migraines will develop migraine headache in adult life; the two propensities might co-exist during the child's adolescence. treating an abdominal migraine can often be difficult; medications used to treat other forms of migraines are usually employed. these include elavil, wellbutrin sr, and topamax. in some cases, the abdominal migraine is a symptom linked to cyclic vomiting syndrome (cvs). there may be a history of migraines in the family of the patient. retinal migraine main article: retinal migraine retinal migraines are a subclass of optical migraines. those affected will experience a scotoma—a patch of vision loss in one eye surrounded by normal vision—for less than one hour before vision returns to normal. retinal migraines may be accompanied by a throbbing unilateral headache, nausea, or photophobia. not classified in the ichd-2 under migraine acephalgic migraine main article: acephalgic migraine acephalgic migraine is a neurological syndrome. it is a variant of migraine in which the patient may experience aura symptoms such as scintillating scotoma, nausea, photophobia, hemiparesis and other migraine symptoms but does not experience headache. acephalgic migraine is also referred to as amigrainous migraine, ocular migraine, ophthalmic migraine or optical migraine, the last three of which are misnomers. people with acephalgic migraine are more likely than the general population to develop classical migraine with headache. the prevention and treatment of acephalgic migraine is broadly the same as for classical migraine. however, because of the absence of "headache", diagnosis of acephalic migraine is apt to be significantly delayed and the risk of misdiagnosis significantly increased. visual snow might be a form of acephalgic migraine. if symptoms are primarily visual, it may be necessary to consult an optometrist or ophthalmologist to rule out potential eye disease before considering this diagnosis.