Monday, July 11, 2011

PLEASE HELP!!: An MRI Detected that I had a disc dessication?!?

Dessication means that they are dried out / cracked for lack of a better term. Hypertrophy is an enlargement. Stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal...that is good that you don't have that. All in all, that is consistent with degenerative disc disease. It can happen at any age, but when you are younger it is usually from heavy smoking. For some reason smoking causes discs to become dessicated, and that leads to the other problems you are having. Not assuming you smoke, just sayin'.

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