Speaker: David Dodenhoff
Question 1 of 3: Describe a specific moment when your joint pain stopped you from doing something you love and how that felt.
David Dodenhoff : I've been a runner my whole life and about a year and a half ago, I completed a marathon, my first one. I was 58 years old at the time and. About a month after that, I got out of bed one day. I remember stepping down with my right foot. I had pretty sharp pain in my knee. Thought it would go away. It didn't go away. I sort of ignored it, tried to rest, tried to relax. Eventually I saw a doctor and he said, yeah, runner's knee, just ice, rest, elevation, all that same stuff that they would tell you. And about a week after seeing the doctor, the left knee started acting the same way. I'll spare you the whole story of what happened in between, but it's a year and a half later after the initial pain. And now I have daily pain in both knees. There hasn't been a day since that I haven't had pain. That's just been the reality and it's pretty significantly affected my Running, hiking, a lot of things I like to do, just trying to manage that pain have gone away or have been reduced in frequency or duration.
Question 2 of 3: What made you finally try GLX3, and how soon did you realize it was different from everything else you’d tried?"
David Dodenhoff : Probably like a lot of you suffering from this kind of pain. I saw a bunch of doctors, had X-rays. Had scans, did physical therapy, got all sorts of different advice. Contradictory advice very often. Stuck with the programs pretty religiously though, according to what I found most persuasive from whoever I talked to most recently, PT or this orthopedist or that orthopedist or primary care physician. You know, and had done the anti-inflammatories. I kind of done the standard conservative program that you do and hadn't gotten stronger, more flexible, but hadn't experienced any alleviation of the pain. And so I got to a point where the next thing was, I had done the cortisone injections. Next thing was hyaluronic acid. And if that didn't work, then the next thing was Platelet rich plasma, and if that doesn't work, then the next thing is stem cells, and if that doesn't work, then surgery and. A lot of you are probably familiar with this, and it was at that point when I said, OK, this starts escalating a level and it gets substantially more expensive and invasive. So I'm going to try some other things before I make a decision to do that. That's when I decided to try the GLX3 and I did a little bit of research and said, OK, this seems like it's not snake oil. It may not be a miracle, but it's worth trying before I get into those more. Expensive and invasive options for caring for this. I would say it was within a couple of weeks of starting that I felt a difference, a reduction in the pain. It wasn't a miracle for me, but there was a noticeable reduction in pain, steady reduction for the first time since I had started experiencing the pain, and I do remember telling people. This is the first thing I've tried where I have felt better. Not that I've been cured, not that I have been healed, but this is the first thing I've tried where I felt better, and that was within 2 weeks, maybe at most 3 weeks of starting.
Last Question: Now that you're back in action, what’s the best part about having your life back?"
David Dodenhoff : There are 2 things I'd say I really appreciate since starting the GLX3 one is just. The reduced level of pain. If you've dealt with this, you know, it's, it's not a fun thing to deal with day to day in the, in the flare-ups where the pain gets really bad and it's, you know, you're lying in bed and it's keeping you up. That's no fun. And so, having a sort of a baseline reduction in that pain has been great. More important than that though, is a little bit of hope that, you know, we're all getting older. Father Time is undefeated. But, I had cut back on my activities, not just because of getting older, but because of the pain, and now I have a little bit of hope that I can press harder. Increase my miles, maybe do another marathon. We'll see. I need to regulate that according to the pain. But now I feel like I've got this tool that for the first time in a long time, I'm thinking, OK, maybe there's a pathway to getting back on track where I was and getting back to the fuller life that I was enjoying before this pain started. And that's been great.
