With all the appropriate, "I'm not a doctor" qualifiers, in my experience, the schmorles nodes (defects like craters in the vertebral bodies) are not significant. The rest of the MRI reads like this.... mild, mild
Mild this and mild that are very common even in people with no symptoms. The doctors don't get too excited about mild pathology that in their experience is not symptomatic. That does not mean it's asymptomatic in your case.
6 months is not a long time in the spine world and I'd encourage you not to jump into surgery unless there is some real motivating factor, like neurologic involvement that is at risk for becoming permanent. (obvously... this is said knowing very little about your case... kind of a general rule. I don't know how badly you are suffering now.)
Good luck... keep us posted,
mark
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