i had back surgery in jan 2010 that required fusion of L2 -L5, since then i have had severe burning starting in my spine, then graduating to my entire trunk area. after the surgery i had a backup of my intestinal track, that cause me severe pain and a destended abdomine, i looked like i was nine months pregnant, this was subsided with an intravenoeus drug to keep my system moving. after i was off the heavy meds from the surgery i kept telling the doctors that i felt like i had a bad sunburn inside my body, thay said it was just the healing process. Well it has been 18 months and i have only gotten worse, i started having pain in my vaginal area so i went to my gyn dr., she said i had vaginal ulcerations, and she biopsied them, and everything came back normal. i also hasd very dry eyes so i went to the eye dr, and was told to put drops in them, i also had very dry mouth and throat, the dentist saw a hugh change in my teeth from ony 4 months earlier, i had to have a root canal on a tooth that only had a very small spot in it prior to the 4 months. i was told that i might have sjorgrins , but a blood test was negative. I saw a rhematologist and he did every test possible ruling out a whole bunch of things, praise God, but told me i might have depression and fibromialga. no one was listening to me, so three weeks ago i insisted on seeing my dr after having severe abdominal pain that went stright to my back. with my back surgery history, five of them in all the drs. just assume it is my back, i also had gastric-by-pass surgery eight years ago, lost almost 200 lbs, and have had 4 ulcers on the astomosis connection. i had two endoscopies that showed my stomach pouch loos fine, but i m still on fire, i can t stand it any more. three weeks ago when i went to my do, i insisted on some kind of scan to see what is happening in my abdomine, a ct was preformed with contrast, it came back showing abnomal thickening of the abdominal walls, the colon walls and a right side lesion, i still have ulcerations in the vaginal area. I think i have ulcerations in my whole digestive tract, but i can t get anyone to listen to me. I now have an app on this thurs. to see a surgeon that does both gastric-by-pass surgery as well as colon,rectal surgery to go over these current ct findins. I KNOW MY BODY AND SOMETHING IS WRONG . i also has test, blood, fecal ,and urine tests done that showed that my body is recognising the titanium as a foreign substance and is reacting to it, it was also found that i have three times the upper limit of lead in me and two and a half times of cadmium, and cadolinium in me. i have had seven chelation treatments to help get rid of these toxic metals, but regular medacine does nt recognise this treatment and i need more to see some results, i did notice that my mentalclarity is better, not my computer skills ok , a little humor is needed, well that about sums it up, thanks for listening, please tell me what you think, and God bless you all. sincerely, Kathy I also had very low iron and had to have two iron infusions, sorry forgot about this