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People who suffer from AA usually live to their normal life expectancy. Every case is different, chronic pain in itself can shorten life span and this disease is different for everyone so it's hard to say. For some people it progressive for others it's not. Surgical procedures or further injury can progress the diagnosis but it really depends on what nerves are effected and where. There have been few reported cases of death from AA as scar tissue spreads it can shut down parts of the central nervous system but cases are rare