Here's my story
In 2015, I had a heart stent placed. My cardiologist was direct with me: no pain medication. Not occasionally, not carefully — none. For someone with my history — three hip replacements, a knee replacement that needed a revision, two shoulder surgeries — that wasn't a minor inconvenience. It meant I had to find another way, or live with it.
I wasn't trying to build a product. I was trying to solve my own problem — and it turned out to be a good one.
I spent the next year working out a formula that actually helped — built around ingredients I trusted, nothing synthetic, nothing that would interact with what my cardiologist had already ruled out. By 2016, at 62, I had it: Hurt-Less.
It's been in production ever since — nearly a decade now. It's still what I use today, and over the years I've made it for friends, neighbors, and their families too. Now it's ready to share more broadly, made the same way I've always made it.
— Michael Ballew
