WFAA Original: 'It's a race against time': Rare chronic pain condition doesn't stop this woman from

Juanita Cano has CRPS and lives every day in some kind of pain.

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No doctor can predict a CRPS patient loosing the ability to walk, that’s the first red flag to this story. Secondly CRPS is not just a pain condition, it’s so much more than that. CRPS does have two classes Type I and Type II. Type I is the more common has no known nerve injury, Type II which is the rare more extreme type has nerve injury with it, both spread 70% of the time. CRPS can and usually causes systematic complications, it also compromises the immune system, attacks the joints, and muscles of the body. In rare cases you can die from complications of CRPS. She doesn’t strike me as a majority case which really complicates and muddles the message, it’s a common frustration in the CRPS community when the rare cases of a CRPS functioning at a relatively normal life. CRPS does what wants when it wants and is highly unpredictable even from minute to minute of each day. Race against time is very misleading, kudos to her for not being low pain the majority of the time.