Please help me (Urgent)

To: Back Pain at Right side
I to have back pain from so many years but barable.  From last One year and half i was feeling that my legs are becoming week not much strength.

I have consulted to the doctor and doctor has advised me to have MRI check up and the result of MRI report is:

Findings:
There is a loss of bright signal on T2 of L4-L5 & L5-S1 discs - Suggestive of Deganerative disc disease.

There is a peripheral annular tears of L2-L3 & L4-L5.

There is severe diffuse disc bules of L2-L3, L4-L5 & L5-S1 levels (worse at L2-L3) with severe compression of thecal sac and both exiting nerve roots.

Endplate changes seen in L4 body with suggestion of Scmorl's nods.

Thres is heatergenous fatty marrow changes of all vertebral bodies.

No evidence of Pre / paraventebral soft tissue collection.

Posterior neural elements appeal normal.

Facet joints appear normal.

Ligamentum flavaum appears normal.

Both Sacroiliac joints as seen in the study appear normal.

Impresion:
Features are suggetive of:-
Degenerative disc disease of L4-L5 & L5-S1.
Severe diffuse disc bulges of L2-L3, L4-l5 & L5-S1 levels (worse at L2-L3) with severe compression of thecal sac and both exiting nerve roots.

Note: Now can any one advise do i need to go for surgery, or is their any medicens which can cure me.  I am very much upset because i dont no what to do and no one is giving me 100% satisfaction answer.
If any specilist doctor can advise me so that i can make my mind and do accordingly.

Many Thanks

[fairylady77]

the only thing that i will tell you...as im sure others will....surgery is a personal decision that you will have to make for yourself. surgery will ONLY help with the leg pain...you will always have the back pain. there are no guarantees that surgery will help....keep it the same..or make it worse. this is something that you have to do research on for yourself and decide if its worth the gamble. not trying to scare you or sway you....but some ppl come out of surgery with more problems than they had to begin with........some ppl..surgery or not, can develop foot drop, and even cauda equina (loss of bowel or bladder function). so the surgery is not something to take very lightly! but some ppl are HAPPY that they had the surgery done.  no medications will cure you....only give pain control. have you tried physical therapy or epidural steriod injections?

A Schmorl's node is an upward and downward protrusion (pushing into) of a spinal disk's soft tissue into the bony tissue of the adjacent vertebrae (the bony building blocks of the spine). Schmorl's nodes are detectable with an x-ray test as a spine abnormality.
Schmorl's nodes are most common in the middle and lower spine.

Schmorl's nodes are common, especially with minor degeneration of the aging spine. Schmorl's nodes usually cause no symptoms, but reflect that "wear and tear" of the spine has occurred over time. Schmorl's nodes are a helpful x-ray finding as an indicator of degenerative process that may be affecting a patient's spine.