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Posted 4/2/2014 6:59 PM (GMT 0)
Has anyone felt really lousy after chiropractic adjustment? My doctor worked on my neck, back, and hip. I felt fine that night but next day was pretty bad as well as some days after. All of my usual symptoms came flaring back. Can manipulation of spinal cord cause this?
Posted 4/2/2014 7:08 PM (GMT 0)
Yes definitely.

In fact, a chiropractic adjustment is what let my Lyme "loose". I felt fine one day and then the next day I was in the ER.

I know that a lot of people feel like getting an adjustment helps them.

But I'm never stepping foot in a chiropractor's office again.
Posted 4/2/2014 7:24 PM (GMT 0)
I think my daughter does react some, but mostly just tiredness.
Posted 4/2/2014 7:33 PM (GMT 0)
Interesting. I had a massage a long time ago and had a horrible flare.
Posted 4/2/2014 8:20 PM (GMT 0)
It releases a lot of toxins. My OD always warns me to drink lots of water the same day, and 2 days after.

I always went in the evening so that I can shower and get to bed when I get home. On some occasions I started shaking uncontrollable, or even crying. He says that the shaking meant he worked too much on me.
Posted 4/4/2014 6:35 AM (GMT 0)
Oh my goodness!! Well, Don't think I'm gonna do that anymore!!
Posted 4/4/2014 6:41 AM (GMT 0)
I have always been in a lot of pain and fatigue for about three days after. I like it because overall it helps my neck but the side effects are a lot. I haven't gone back since the last times effects.
Posted 4/4/2014 9:23 AM (GMT 0)
Taking a dose of Vitamin C before or immediately following the adjustment can help reduce the "detox" effects of the treatment.
Posted 4/4/2014 11:59 AM (GMT 0)
My baseline is so poor I can hardly tell if I am herxing or not! Lol
I'm sorry you feel badly. I'm sure that can happen.
Posted 4/11/2014 6:59 AM (GMT 0)
I've had Lyme since I was 11 and had chiropractic care since I was 12 until I was 18. It helped a lot and I always felt so much better after getting adjusted. Then I had to switch chiropractors and the new one made my neck hurt much worse in a bad way for a month so I didn't get adjusted for three years.

I started going to a chiropractor again two weeks ago. The doctor made my neck feel amazing, it was really weird having my neck feel so good! But then the guy quit the next day! So I now see a different doctor and I have been adjusted by him twice. I am extremely sore after for 3 days but I think it is helping my neck pain. I have bulging disks (from a car accident 2 years ago) and a straight neck (for like the past 5 or more years) so I really have to get adjusted otherwise the straightening will become permanent and I will get arthritis and my disks can become herniated. Also maybe adjustments will help my scoliosis.

I think I am pro-chiropractors again. I thought I would never get adjusted again but my neck pain was becoming so unbearable I had to do something and I think I made the right choice by going back to a chiropractor. I don't know if it is good or bad for people with Lyme to get adjusted but I have had it for ten years, so at this point I'm just like whatever.

I wouldn't call my after-adjustment pains a flare up, but I do feel very sore after. It is a different pain than my usual pain. I think icing helps and I lay my neck on a squishy foam roll (I think it is called a mackenzie roll) which also I think helps.
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