Lyme disease survivor Emily Levy is turning #LymeintoLemonAid.

Spring semester sophomore year, Emily Levy wore a toeless sock around her arm-to class, weddings, sorority parties, and presentations. She wasn't trying to make a statement. Rather, all she wanted was to fit in.

"I didn't have the confidence," the Babson College junior says. "I felt like I was sick."

It's believed that an infected tick bit Levy when she was in the seventh grade. It took seven years, however, for doctors to reach that conclusion.

"I was misdiagnosed so many times," Levy says. "They thought it was mono. At one...