diff --git a/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/6_1_0/3810-improve-documentation-on-elastic-lucene-direect-resources-load.yaml b/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/6_1_0/3810-improve-documentation-on-elastic-lucene-direect-resources-load.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1a535f764e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/6_1_0/3810-improve-documentation-on-elastic-lucene-direect-resources-load.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+type: fix
+issue: 3810
+title: "Elastic/Lucene documentation was updated to indicate that full reindex is required when enabling
+      storing resource bodies in indexes when indexed resources exist."
diff --git a/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/docs/server_jpa/elastic.md b/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/docs/server_jpa/elastic.md
index 59fce077791..684fa8b6b4d 100644
--- a/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/docs/server_jpa/elastic.md
+++ b/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/docs/server_jpa/elastic.md
@@ -82,4 +82,5 @@ This extension is only valid at the type level, and requires that Extended Lucen
 
 As an experimental feature with the extended indexing, the full resource can be stored in the 
 search index.  This allows some queries to return results without using the relational database.
-Note: This does not support the $meta-add or $meta-delete operations.
+Note: This does not support the $meta-add or $meta-delete operations. Full reindexing is required 
+when this option is enabled after resources have been indexed.