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Lyme symptoms

I am new to this forum and would appreciate any help.
I was diagnosed with Lyme a few months ago, although I have been suffering for over 7 years. Among my
many aggravating symptoms, I also suffer with toxic mold exposure as well. I have ringing in my left ear that is
chronic and driving me crazy! Sometimes, it is so loud I have to turn the volume on the tv up. Now, I have been to a hearing specialist who tested my hearing, BEFORE, my ringing in ear, and he said I had high frequency hearing loss. Then, two years later, I went to another hearing specialist who also said I had high frequency hearing loss (which would explain my ringing in ear) and when I compared the lab reports, the graphs were identical. So, I believe it is caused by my Lyme disease and I have read other post where patients experience this as well.
My other question: My joints crack all the time,,,every single joint including my vertebrae. I also read where cracking joints could also be a symptom of lyme. So, what I would like to know is: Does the ringing in the ear and joint cracking go away with treatment. I sure do hope so. I am working with a Lyme and mold specialist. Thanks folks! Susan
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All my oddball symptoms went away after treatment.  Even the ones I didn't realize I had.

The way our apartment building is designed, it has a lot of glass everywhere, and unfortunately the architects didn't stop to think that all the light flowing in (there are no overhangs or porches to give some shade to the inside) could be a bit much.  

When I had Lyme, my eyes couldn't take all the light, so I went around lining the curtains and setting up glorified 'dress racks' near the windows (in addition to the curtains), draping thick fabric over the racks to block out as much light as possible.  

Just the other day, I took the fabric down to give it a good and long overdue dust-shaking, and I realized I don't need them anymore!  My eyes are doing fine now even in all the light.  So we each have oddball symptoms that don't make sense except in the context of Lyme, and sometimes not recognized till after the fact.

Among MDs, I found that ophthalmologists are particularly understanding of Lyme disease.  I was surprised, since many other kinds of docs think Lyme is fake disease, or at least a psychological one in some ways.  

Bottom line:  whatever symptoms you are having are real and valid, and tho they may not be the same as anyone else's, take them for what they are and don't doubt yourself.

I started a chart on my computer, with columns for each day:
date, what meds I took, what I ate, how I felt.  That way at least I knew it was written down somewhere in case it was useful information to my doc, and I would go through before an appointment and summarize my notes since the last appointment.

One doc I saw asked to review the detailed notes, and she was very helpful when I was at the end of Lyme treatment and trying to rebuild my thrashed and tired body.

Whatever you are feeling is real, even if no one else has that specific symptom.  Lyme is tricky and sneaky, and as syphilis (a cousin of Lyme) used to be called the 'great imitator' of other diseases because of it many manifestations and symptoms that looked so much like other diseases, Lyme is the new 'great imitator.'

Know that it's not you that's out of sorts or off the beam:  it's the infection, and things do get better with treatment.
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