Encore: Ticked Off! Botched Lyme Disease Treatments Turned Susan R. Green from Angry Patient to Tireless Advocate

Towson attorney Susan R. Green knows she’s been bitten by ticks at least four times in the past two decades, and thinks her problems started that far back. But when she called her doctor after first noticing a bite, he said not to worry unless she noticed the tell-tale bull’s-eye rash. No rash, no worries. For Green, that was just one of the misconceptions about Lyme that resulted in years of crippling sickness. Long before Western medicine finally acknowledged that she had Lyme disease, she noticed that her memory wasn’t what it used to be. Then, she developed a twitch in her left eye and some anxiety, things she’d never experienced before. She got an MRI brain scan to find an answer to her memory issues, but, mostly, her doctors said she was fine. And she believed them. Until December 1, 2007.