Help me figure out my pain. MRI reading..

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Ashley, Welcome to the forum!!!

Here is what I see when I read your post. "Mild, mild, mild, mild to moderate, mild".

We all have degenerative disc disease (DDD). Many of us will have similar pathology noted or even much, much worse; and be completely asymptomatic. I was unlucky enough to be one of the people with mild looking imaging, but severe symptoms. For years I was told that the severity of my symptoms is not justified by the pathology noted on my MRI. Luckily for me, they were wrong and my L4-S1 ADR removed my low back pain.

Do your symptoms rise to the level of risking surgery?

Do your symptoms correspond to the pathology noted?

What is being recommended for you?

All the best,

Mark