Lightroom adjustments applied to edits in external application

I discovered something else tonight that I sure didn't think happened. When I do an edit in external application and choose Edit a Copy (Lightroom adjustments will not be visible) the lightroom adjustments that were applied to the original are applied to the edited file. They show before you save your edit and they are applied after you save your file. This surely is not what anybody wants nor do I remember this happening (maybe I always edited an unadjusted file before tonight?). They don't show in history so you can't undo them except by zeroing all the changes.

Thanks for responding, Pierre. No, I get three choices to edit in an external editor. My files are jpgs. a) edit the original, b) edit a copy without lightroom adjustments, c) edit a copy with lightroom adjustments. In the case of b, I get a jpg in Photoshop and it does not show lightroom adjustments. In case c, I get a PSD in Photoshop and it already shows lightroom adjustments and does not readjust it when I save the file.
I am using b. Edit a copy without lightroom adjustments. But as soon as the copy is created it shows the +- meaning an adjustment is applied and after I save a change from Photoshop, this adjustment is applied on top of the edits made in Photoshop. I didn't notice this happening previously so I wonder if it's some setting I managed to set with random incorrect keystrokes or something?
Adjustments are not applied to every file. It's only when the original has an adjustment, it is applied to the copy, and then applied to the edited copy AFTER it is saved (but the adjustments do not appear in the history).

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