I find it hard to beleive that you are having prolonged effects, tests have shown that to actually deplete the myelin of the nerves it has to be taken at high dosages for extended period of times. Right now there is no conclusive evidence as to the actual effects, just what has been noticed to happen at a slightly higher rate than control groups. Right now the most common findings are actually neurlogical issues with continuitery of nerves, and impulses not properly firing.
Also it is not prescribed to people that are “Basically going to die” it is being prescribed to patients for psychotheropy usages.
read up, its actually a decent wiki article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA
that is of course talking about pure MDMA, which about 90% of exstacy is not. The better the pill the more coke, heroin, K, mesci it will have in it