The strangest thing about degenerative disc disease is that two people can have similar-looking scans and radically different experiences. One person may have worn-down discs and no symptoms at all. Another may see the same kind of language on an MRI report — disc degeneration, disc height loss, arthritis, bone spurs, stenosis — and finally have visible evidence for pain that's been plaguing them for years (this was the case for me). That's where DDD becomes so maddening. The