My hearing has been getting waves of MEGA amplification, to the extent that I don't know if I am actually hearing things that arent there (no ones telling me to kill the neighbors cat or anything) just an exhale, or weird stuff 1-2 words, at first I thought I was hearing things, then it happened as my hub and son were talking, and it waved through their conversation for me to understand it's this MEGA amplification, and even the tone changes, it soooooo weird. Both ears do it, but it's more onthe left, same side that my face has been doing it's funky stuff. my left arm/shoulder has been killing me all day today, it was spasming all day yesterday and has settled into pain where i cant carry things much, or 'use' the joint as it kills.

I get the hearing stuff too, everything sounds really loud, or the lights will bother my eyes. Some nights I can't stand the lamp on at all.
I hope my hearing stuff doesn't get worse on Zithromax, but so far it hasn't been as bad as it was on Minoicn.

I hope it gets better for you and for me. It can be a real pain, cuz I think the TV is loud and my husband doesn't.
I did hear things too, music, people talking like the TV was on.

Hang in there you are not alone and it is very scary.

The zith does do that too - but I have no idea which ones are better - listen to the more knowledgable posters above me about that.

Just wanted to let you know that you are not alone and i believe it will get better!!

I also have ear symptoms. I started noticing ringing in my ears a few years ago before abx. As time has gone on it seems to distort what I hear at times also. I kind of relate it to being similar to getting blurry vision.

Also, everything seems to be so loud. My poor husband is a musician, and I just can't tollerate loud noise, and sometimes quiet noise as well. Then again if I don't have some white noise when I fall asleep then the ringing in my ears drives me up a wall!

Hope you don't mind me ranting about what I'm going through, just thought that maybe it would help to know you aren't alone with your ear and brain symptoms.

I wish you all the best in your treatment, I haven't stumbled across anything that works for my hearing yet.

Yep, I had that WIERD sort of noise "halucination".. Most of it happened on high doses of doxy. I would get stuff like the sounds of balloons popping, cats meowing (no cats in house, at the time) gunshots, pots falling on floors, and the one or two words shouted, from a voice that didnt live in the house. For me, it happened mostly during that time right before you wake up or fall asleep...It freaked me out. Thought i was goin nutso. My llmd said he had a few neuro patients that had experienced the same thing.

I had one a month or so ago when i started samento. I think it could be a form of neuro herx. Mine always seemed to coincede with headaches. Havent had one since....thank God..

Just one more of lyme's little surprises...lol

Sometimes I will hear someone or something say "Yeahhhhh" or "heree" once I heard someone say "I'm here" right in my ear, I do have some psychic stuff, have always, but never truly 'hearing' something with my ears like someones in the room w/ me and I see no one, once day I was sitting on the computer and heard someone say "psst!" 3x! Iwas like, whatever- Lyme, losing my mind, I don't care I am too tired LOL thankfully no visual hallucinations or I would just admit myself to the looney bin. (still contemplating it but LOL)

Luckily it's just quick 2 word things, or a noise, or an exhale but in an odd tone that I truly don't know what I exactly hear sometimes, I just know I hear something and its MEGA amplified and a weird tone, then it goes away.
Got me, tis some freaky stuff I'll tell ya!

Thanks for sharing your story. I actually read the first article when doing a search on auditory symptoms because it was driving me so mad. Pretty wild to do a board with the actual person that the article was written about!

Did it sound like hearing the music on the radio, or was it like "hearing it in your head"?

Actually, just couple weeks ago I knew I was the last person at the office (I was taking advantage of a good day), we had been sharing some dark humor at the office earlier that day. Whenever someone quits or is fired, HR sends out an email stating "We regret to inform you that EmployeeX is no longer with us." We had an eldery employee that died, the announcement was worded almost the same way. We started our dark joke that all of those employees who disappeard and are "no longer with us" might actually be buried beneath the building. (Construction humor- we'd been kidding earlier about paying bills for "ten foot long dead men", which is a slang term for a foundation material.)

Anywho, when I heard typing, I went looking for the source- it was always in the next room. I'm not remotedly superstitious, so I wasn't scared, just curious. But if I were more likely to believe in such, I could've been convinced it was the wraith of one of those who are " no longer with us", busy finishing one last project... now, that's job commitment!