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Should I Consider Surgery Or Manage With Lifelong Pain Medication For L3 Compression Deformity, Multilevel DDD, And Facet Osteoarthritis?
I have compression deformity of the upper endplate of L3 is present with 60% loss of height muktilevel degenerative disc diseace and facet osteoarthritis. The question is surgery. Or pain meds for the rest of my life