Parkinson misdiagnosed as caffeine overuse for seven years

Granahan faced social stigma and discrimination, including bar entry denial due to his gait being mistaken for intoxication; he also lost his wife and raises his daughter alone.

At thirteen, a boy's trembling leg was quietly dismissed as the consequence of too much tea — a misreading that would stand unchallenged for seven years. John Granahan's story is one of medicine's humbling limits: the way a familiar explanation can obscure an unfamiliar truth, and the cost paid by those who live inside that gap. Now fifty-four, decades past the age his doctors said he would stop walking, Granahan endures as a reminder that prognosis is not destiny, and that persistence — in seeking answers and in living — carries its own kind of power.

Parkinson misdiagnosed as caffeine overuse for seven years

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