Just tell them it hurts - tell them it's your back.
By the way the old 'ecstasy damages your spine' yarn is unproven, and by now you'd imagine there's be quite a few people in quite a lot of trouble if it were true.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 3 May 2011, 9:03, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Like the Monty Python "Brain Doctor" sketch
but with "back" instead of "brain"?
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 3 May 2011, 9:04, Reply)

I actually cannot recall having seen the sketch in question.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 3 May 2011, 9:05, Reply)

Well that has completely buggered what could have been a vaguely amusing rejoinder, hasn't it

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 3 May 2011, 9:12, Reply)

that shit about it causing loss of spinal fluid?
yeah, and it makes your balls drop off, too. Honest.

MDMA is a fuck sight safer than most things. Like anything else, a combinantion of occasional individual user stupidity and massive Daily Mail scare stories spreads fear.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 3 May 2011, 9:10, Reply)

That's a relief
*downs pills, reaches for the lasers*
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 3 May 2011, 9:12, Reply)

Yeah! I thought I was going to die once after ingesting far too much MDMA.
But the best thing was I didn't care.
( girlinthehole, Tue 3 May 2011, 9:13, Reply)

haha.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 3 May 2011, 9:14, Reply)

I hope my real demise is akin to how that felt.

( girlinthehole, Tue 3 May 2011, 9:16, Reply)