Submitted by MyBoyfriendLikesIt t3_zmqozd in tifu
This was 2 days ago when I realized I might just be getting scammed. I've been going to a chiropractor for years. Different ones since I move a lot. Probably every year or every year and a half (f28) I have a lower back/hip problem that keeps coming up every once in a while. Been having issues since college. Well... This time about 5 months ago the pain has been consistent. I started going to acupuncture which was extremely helpful with the pain but I knew ultimately there was a much worse problem. So I followed up with the chiropractor. I've been going for a few months now. But a few weeks back I decided to see a new doctor because the pain persisted. They gave me an MRI and saw that there was bulging disc (which the chiropractor didn't see because she only did a regular x-ray). Anyways ... The new doc suggested I start Physical therapy. I figured it would be good for me. HOWEVER I don't know why I thought seeing the chiropractor simultaneously would be beneficial. I thought it would..... logically it still makes sense. Both doctors would be helping me get aligned. One with physical manipulation and the other with exercises.
Here's where it gets interesting....
I've been going to the chiropractor once a week. PT has been 3 times a week. Every time I got aligned more at PT the next week I'd be out of whack. I didn't associate this with the chiropractor though because I've heard many times before that sometimes the body just has a hard time "holding". So I was like cool! I went to Physical therapy last Thursday and Friday and for once my body was in perfect alignment they said. On Monday I went back to physical therapy and my body moved slightly, but not much. We did exercises that fixed the issue and I was all set. On Tuesday I go to the chiropractor..... She cracks me. BIG CRACK. And says "yup! That's a good one" mind you..... This leaves me pretty sore but she looks afterwards at my feet alignment and says I'm good.
Wednesday comes and I'm back at PT. They too look at feet alignment to make sure you're aligned. My physical therapist is immediately confused and says.... "OMG you're really off... Idk how that happened. You were perfectly ok on Monday and you're whole hip is rotated" she essentially asks me what I did. I'm too embarrassed to tell her that the only thing that changed was the damn chiropractor. So I said I am not sure.
Anyways....I noticed I do feel better after PT each time. So I'm not going back to the chiropractor. I'm pretty much getting the sense that either she is a fraud or they all are. I'm extremely disappointed in all the money I have spent going to her.
TLDR - I've been going to the Chiropractor for months for a lower back/hip issue. I went to another doctor to get looked at further and they suggested Physical therapy. I started PT and still went to the chiropractor thinking it would be helpful in using both in my healing process. Turns out, the chiropractor actually has been making me worse. I was on an amazing streak at Physical therapy with my body until I went to the chiropractor in between visits and now my hip rotated again.