Coping With Lyme Disease

I am a family practioner. I developed neuroborreliosis (chronic late) in 2000 after a self-diagnosed and partially treated erythema migrans [rash associated with Lyme disease] in 1996. In 1996 I developed peroneal palsy, undifferentiated encephalopathy, and, ultimately, varied transient epsiodes of neuropsychiatric disease.

In 1997 the Board of Medical examiners made some faulty assumptions about a problem with primary psychiatric propblems which, ostensibly, posed a potential risk to my patients. I could not find a physician who would be able to comprehend how my laboratory data could be used for diagnosis in the absence of the 5 band criteria. I ultimately was able to substantiate my claims by virtue of a frozen specimen of CSF which was drawn in NY in 2000 and reported to me in 2003. I sent the report to the licensing board in the hope that they could consider the suspension as unwarrented in the absence of any clear evidence of co-eisting mental illness. IO am still struglling with the licensure board. I have been unable to find employment anywhere because of the lack of understanding.

S Tyner MD