Curious, thank you for mentioning the lowered tolerance to pain. As you may have read elsewhere in the forums, I just detoxed off morphine... depending on who you believe, I may still be detoxing since I started July 18, 2008. Anyway, I had to get off the opiates due to
life threatening respiratory problems and signs of "Early Onset Dementia". My dad had Alzheimer's the last few years of his life and I don't want my wife to go through that with me.

Another article I read said people with red hair have been shown to have less tolerance to pain. Who knows? I was truly blessed in that I never liked any opiate and still don't. They are simply a tool to make life more bearable and nothing more to me, but my wife taught Substance Abuse classes in her school district for a few years, so she provided adult supervision for me. I was only on them a few years.

If you took a list of drugs that would cause ED and compare them to the 25 prescriptions I was on a few months ago, you would be amazed. I am fortunate that my recovery from the opiates and my ability to ... uh ... go back to a more normal marriage are coming along nicely. My wife deserves all the good things in life, she has stood by me during some really difficult times. Thanks again...