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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 436081" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I had the same question. My last MRI was brain and entire spinal chord. It did take a while, I was booked in the evening.</p><p></p><p>With the degenerative disc disease, it is not actually a Disease as such, it is simply a descriptor. If you were lifting kegs when you were in your 20s, that'd do it. And yes, it could account for the problems in your legs. My neurologist reckons the degeneration in my spine, plus narrowing of a few cervical vertebrae (which they've been observing on various tests since I was in MY 20s!) are related to the problems I have in my legs. But when the narrowing was first observed, I was told repeatedly that it should not be causing any symptoms.</p><p></p><p>Medicine is a very inexact science. Sixty years ago they didn't understand about spinal discs. I remember reading Spike Milligan's "Adolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall" about his experiences during WWII and how right at the beginning of the war when he was being sought by the army, he was in hospital with what turned out years later to be a slipped disc. But as he said, "Being in hospital with a bad back just as you're called up rings about as true as the landlady being caught in bed with the lodger, saying the laundry's late."</p><p></p><p>Jen, at our age when any pics are taken of our bones etc, they will find stuff wrong. Don't let it worry you. It could explain a few symptoms, but a lot of this sort of degeneration is inevitable and natural and doesn't necessarily cause any problems.</p><p></p><p>A lot of stuff gets found these days, because a lot more tests get done and things get found often purely by chance. For example, I have ribs in my neck. I had to have a routine x-ray when I started my teacher training (an x-ray was a pre-resquisite) and that was when they found the ribs. They have never caused me any trouble, but every time I see a new doctor who has ordered pictures, they see the ribs and comment. A few times someone has tried to blame various pain problems on the ribs, but I point out that I have not had pain life-long, and the ribs themselves are merely floating in the muscle tissue, not actually influencing the spine. Unlike the cervical spine narrowed discs (believed to be congenital) which we have seen slowly deteriorate over the years. "Seek and ye shall find" - often not what you were orignally looking for, and often not what is going to help you in your quest.</p><p></p><p>Having this finding does not necessarily mean causality. If you grabbed any random person off the streets and examined their spine in detail, problems would be found, I can almost guarantee it. But would the person have noticed problems? Maybe. Would the problems they noticed be related to what is found? Maybe. But maybe not.</p><p></p><p>Our bodies begin to deteriorate from the minute we take our first breath. What we have to decide to do, is to live to the best of our ability, within the limitations of the body we have been given.</p><p></p><p>Or as it was put so well in "Shawshank Redemption" - "You gotta either get busy livin', or get busy dyin'."</p><p></p><p>Don't let this get to you, don't read too much into it. Just take it on board as information and move on.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 436081, member: 1991"] I had the same question. My last MRI was brain and entire spinal chord. It did take a while, I was booked in the evening. With the degenerative disc disease, it is not actually a Disease as such, it is simply a descriptor. If you were lifting kegs when you were in your 20s, that'd do it. And yes, it could account for the problems in your legs. My neurologist reckons the degeneration in my spine, plus narrowing of a few cervical vertebrae (which they've been observing on various tests since I was in MY 20s!) are related to the problems I have in my legs. But when the narrowing was first observed, I was told repeatedly that it should not be causing any symptoms. Medicine is a very inexact science. Sixty years ago they didn't understand about spinal discs. I remember reading Spike Milligan's "Adolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall" about his experiences during WWII and how right at the beginning of the war when he was being sought by the army, he was in hospital with what turned out years later to be a slipped disc. But as he said, "Being in hospital with a bad back just as you're called up rings about as true as the landlady being caught in bed with the lodger, saying the laundry's late." Jen, at our age when any pics are taken of our bones etc, they will find stuff wrong. Don't let it worry you. It could explain a few symptoms, but a lot of this sort of degeneration is inevitable and natural and doesn't necessarily cause any problems. A lot of stuff gets found these days, because a lot more tests get done and things get found often purely by chance. For example, I have ribs in my neck. I had to have a routine x-ray when I started my teacher training (an x-ray was a pre-resquisite) and that was when they found the ribs. They have never caused me any trouble, but every time I see a new doctor who has ordered pictures, they see the ribs and comment. A few times someone has tried to blame various pain problems on the ribs, but I point out that I have not had pain life-long, and the ribs themselves are merely floating in the muscle tissue, not actually influencing the spine. Unlike the cervical spine narrowed discs (believed to be congenital) which we have seen slowly deteriorate over the years. "Seek and ye shall find" - often not what you were orignally looking for, and often not what is going to help you in your quest. Having this finding does not necessarily mean causality. If you grabbed any random person off the streets and examined their spine in detail, problems would be found, I can almost guarantee it. But would the person have noticed problems? Maybe. Would the problems they noticed be related to what is found? Maybe. But maybe not. Our bodies begin to deteriorate from the minute we take our first breath. What we have to decide to do, is to live to the best of our ability, within the limitations of the body we have been given. Or as it was put so well in "Shawshank Redemption" - "You gotta either get busy livin', or get busy dyin'." Don't let this get to you, don't read too much into it. Just take it on board as information and move on. Marg [/QUOTE]
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