My name is Diane. I have suffered with chronic pain since October, 1986. I had a horse riding accident and crushed L1. I was air lifted to Vancouver, Canada, where I had two titanium rods and screws put into my back and a rib was removed to build up the damaged vertebrae. In 1991 it was found that my back repair had failed and I had another operation where Harrington rods and screws were inserted and bone from my hip was removed. In 2015, I was losing the ability to walk and after many tests it was decided to operate again. This time the Harrington rods were removed and two rods installed. I am now fused from T10 - L5. In 2019 I had a Medtronic Spinal Cord Stimulator installed. For the first year I was able to walk well, but then I lost this ability and my pain increased. In 2022 my bowels stopped working. I had a CT scan, but unfortunately the rods obscure the picture, but it was found that my liver has moved up in my body and my intestine is squished into the area where my rib was removed. I now have to take three full doses a day of Restoralax. I am on a waiting list to see a Gastroenterologist. My primary doctor would like my rods to be removed, but the titanium rods are unable to be taken out, as they were placed in order for the bone to grow around them. I am waiting to see the surgeon. Due to being in considerable pain I am now taking Methadone. The accident happened when I was forty and I am now seventy seven. In 2007 I had colon cancer and seven inches of my colon was removed and twenty lymph nodes.