[stylin19a]

I had always been a skeptic about things like this until approx. 1989.

My father had been diagnosed with Rheumatoid arthritis. His joints were all swollen, his fingers were all cramped/claw looking and he was in constant pain.

He was taking gold shots and was required to take 25-30 aspirin a day. He had to take the aspirin while in a warm bath. He was hunched over in absolute pain.

He had a small bottle of St. Jude's oil (whatever that is, wherever it originally came from i don't know), that was his mother's.

He rubbed the oil on his joints in a last desperate attempt for some relief. He experienced instant relief. His fingers became ungnarled and he never had that pain again.

[NYer]

He was taking gold shots and was required to take 25-30 aspirin a day.

It's miracle enough that he didn't bleed to death.

Thank you for sharing your story. Yes, we are all unbelievers .. UNTIL .. it happens to someone we love. Then, we try to justify it or find rational explanations ... when that fails, we bury it in our hearts, thank God and that particular saint for their intervention, and keep it hushed up. Who would believe us, right?

This is truly a beautiful story and thank you for sharing it with others on this forum. I have done a search on St. Jude's oil but found only a few testimonials, such as yours. Hopefully some other members will know more about it.

[Aquinasfan]

My father had been diagnosed with Rheumatoid arthritis.

I can appreciate this miracle because I have a similar form of arthritis (ankylosing spondylitis). Yes, remissions occur, but the damage is never reversed. Never.

The damage worsens because the immune system's attack may not stop resulting in destruction of synovial tissue, cartilage, bone, tendons and ligaments that may lead to permanent deformity and disability.

Fortunately for me, many new medications have come on-line in the past five years and I am now doing great. I can even jog and play basketball and soccer. But my SI joint which is fused will never "unfuse."

MS is an auto-immune disorder like RA. Scientists are only now discovering ways to reverse demyelination with specific therapies. Spontaneous reversal of demyelination is unheard of, as far as I know.