Hi Shelly,
I’m currently seeing a NUCCA chiropractor (for a head/neck trauma) after being over adjusted by another upper cervical chiropractor, but things aren’t going so well. The fall has affected my vision in a big way and is a great “pain in the neck”, so to speak, along with headaches, sinus congestion, and a feeling of being off balance and unsteady. I’ve run the gamut of doctors (eye doctors, general practitioner, naturopath, neurologist, physical therapist) and discovered all my problems came from my seemingly innocuous fall when interviewed by my naturopath. I was so excited when I finally found out what was causing all my issues, after 7 months of getting nothing from traditional doctors but somehow, things haven’t worked out.

I’m wondering how your NUCCA treatment went like and if you felt better and better after each adjustment? For me, the first three adjustments were just amazing. I regained a sense of balance and by the 3rd adjustment, I actually had a running nose like crazy which to me was a good sign since I had been diagnosed with sinus congestion earlier in the year with a CT scan, thinking I had some tumor. Then, after the 4th adjustment, things went downhill. I noticed and said to my NUCCA doctor that he had pressed a little harder than usual and he said something was resistant. That same night, I started getting eye pains and my vision went off again. I could not focus very well. Then the rest of the adjustment didn’t help. My sinus congestion came back and now I have head pressure and my ears have this sense of fullness and muffled feeling for over 3 weeks. I also started to feel my spine get twisted as well and my neck making tons of grating, clicking, grinding sounds that I did not have before the treatment. I did voice my concerns about everything. It wasn’t until the 11th adjustment that he agreed to retake xrays, after which he calculated a new angle. I’ve had two adjustments since but no great improvements like the 1st three adjustments and cannot seem to hold longer than 2-3 days either.

I’m reaching out to you to see how a “good NUCCA” experience is like and wondering if I need to jump ship to a new NUCCA chiro or, as my current NUCCA doc said, see a craniopath if this doesn’t work out. It’s been almost a good year since everything went downhill and I’m ready to get on with my life…my children and husband need a happier, healthier mother. Every single day I pray that my health will get better and do the best I can to seek out treatment that might help…but some days, I feel so disappointed and lose hope that I’ll ever feel “normal” and healthy again.