Yes! This just happened to me this week. I saw a new doctor, a neurologist who specializes in pain. He took a detailed and magnified look at my MRI and found “modic changes” at L5-S1. This was interpreted by the radiologist as “degenerative changes”.
But, unlike degenerative changes, there is actually a treatment plan to help with the pain caused by modic changes, called basivertebral ablation.
I’m not saying this is, or even could be your problem. I’m saying that another set of eyes on that MRI can’t hurt.