My mouse only right clicks

I am having a problem with my mouse it seems to only right click. I checked in the setting menu but doesn't work the only solution I can figure out is to restart but mouse messes up after a few minutes. with the mouse problems I cannot do anything to the point I am posting this on my macbook. any help would be great.
thanks

It's not an ideal solution but one thing you can try is System Preferences > Mouse > uncheck Secondary click.
This will disable the right click function.  When you want to do a "right click" you can hold down the Control key as you left click.  This will create the secondary click function.
Regards,
Captfred

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