life expectancy for friedreich's ataxia

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Paulo as you know friedreich's ataxia, is a neurological degenerative disease. As such it’s progression largely depends on at what age a person is, when the diagnoses is made. So the younger a person is, the quicker it will progress to a point where it becomes fatal. And the older a person is, the less likely it is to be fatal but more likely that you die from the complications.

Now here is my own personal experience with friedreich's ataxia, from my point of view with how it affected my grand father. I remember watching him as a young kid, go from using a single cane. To using two cain’s, a walker, a wheel chair and eventually being bed ridden in a nursing home. I also remember that he had no feeling from his waste down, so he would have never known or felt any pain if he had hurt himself. Be it either by burning himself, or stabbing himself below the waste. He also never knew when he soiled himself. Now he lived to about 76 years of age, before he finally passed on, from heart failure if I remember right.

So how the disease progresses depends largely on when you are diagnosed, as well as how well you take care of yourself both medically as well as how you eat, and physical therapy you receive.