Vestibular migraine migraine headaches are a common neurological condition although common migraines are characterized by a moderate to severe pounding or throbbing headache vestibular migraine may or may not involve headaches in combination with vestibular symptoms such as vertigo imbalance nausea and vomiting what you need to know. Readers will learn how to recognize and properly treat vestibular migraine which is often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed as menieres syndrome a form of vertigo characterized by vertigo spells and hearing loss that presents comorbidity with migraine or benign paroxysmal positional vertigo in which patients experience brief episodes of vertigo lasting from seconds to 1 minute when they move their heads in a certain way. Vestibular migraine migraine a disorder usually associated with headache is extremely common and can cause several vestibular syndromes studies suggest that about 25 percent of migraineurs experience dizziness or migraine during attacks migraine associated vertigo mav or vestibular migraine can occur with or without pain