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A 33-year-old woman suffered three strokes and was left permanently disabled after a chiropractic adjustment. The woman is now urging people to see a real doctor if they have any health concerns. \u201cGo to the hospital,\u201d she said.In December 2021, Jaycie Conley, a 33-year-old stay-at-home mother from Ventura, California, started experiencing persistent headaches. A new mum with a six-month-old boy, she thought the headache was due to stress and sleep deprivation.\u201cI remember thinking I slept wrong, like I\u2019d kinked my neck or something, so I let it go for a couple of days, but the pain was getting worse, so I contacted a chiropractor that I\u2019d worked with before,\u201d she told the Daily Mail.So she visited the chiropractor and had some neck adjustments. A few hours after the visit, Conley felt nauseous. \u201cMy eyes went cross-eyed by themselves,\u201d she recalled. She immediately texted the chiropractor, who asked her to return for another adjustment. The chiropractor told Conley, \u201cit could be you\u2019re just having a weird reaction\u201d.\u201cThe chiropractor said, \u2018I\u2019d rather see you than not.\u2019 So that\u2019s why I went back the second time,\u201d the woman recalled. \u201cShe said if it keeps happening, go to the doctor. She said that several times. It was alarming the way she wasn\u2019t alarmed.\u201d However, Conley didn\u2019t know it was urgent, as the chiropractor never mentioned it. But her symptoms didn\u2019t go away, so she decided to go to the hospital. The doctors ordered an MRI scan. She had suffered a bilateral vertebral artery dissection (VAD), a serious condition in which tears occur in the walls of both arteries supplying blood to the brain. It is a life-threatening condition that can often cause an ischaemic stroke.Conley\u2019s symptoms were the result of two mini-strokes, called transient ischaemic attacks (TIAs), that she had suffered. According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, TIAs are often warning signs that a person is at risk of a more serious and debilitating stroke.Later, she suffered a third and more severe stroke in the hospital, following which she was in the ICU for five days. The doctors told her the bilateral VAD was likely from the \u2018velocity\u2019 of the chiropractor\u2019s neck adjustment.\u201cI was completely shocked that going to a chiropractor had contributed to this. I thought, \u2018I\u2019m 33, how could this happen?\u2019 To be 33 and basically be an elderly person in the ICU, not able to use my hands, not able to stand up and walk, not able to use the bathroom on my own, that really did a number on my psyche for a while,\u201d she said.The series of events worried the new mum. \u201cI was terrified my child might not have had a mum. I couldn\u2019t lift my son, and I had a hard time being a stay-at-home parent. That put a lot of stress on our family.\u201dThe ordeal has left her permanently disabled. Conley suffers from weakness on the right side of her body. She also has speech difficulties. Now 38, Conley is warning others about the potential downsides of visiting a chiropractor.\u201cChiropractors are trained to look for and learn about strokes. They even make you sign a waiver that it is a risk, but no one pays attention to it. I signed a waiver, not knowing what I was signing. That\u2019s not education; that\u2019s not fully informed consent,\u201d she said.She added, \u201cI feel angry and disappointed. I just hope somebody learns what I didn\u2019t learn prior to this.\u201d The woman also urged people to go to medical doctors when they have any health issues. \u201cIf you have a headache and you\u2019re postpartum, go to the hospital. If there\u2019s any part of this I can promote, it\u2019s to be aware of what it is and the severity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Pic courtesy: Instagram\/ @mrs.conley_213) A 33-year-old woman suffered three strokes and was left permanently disabled after a chiropractic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4315],"tags":[266666,266663,105,266665,4326,266664,64995,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-955289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-bilateral-vertebral-artery-dissection","9":"tag-chiropractic-adjustment","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare-awareness","12":"tag-medication","13":"tag-postpartum-health","14":"tag-stroke-risk","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116562879360984313","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}