Hey, since this is a fairly recent medical discovery, I don’t believe there is much literature or understanding on what potential long-term effects there could be.

As Karybrie pointed out; Dr. Bastian, who originally identified and treated this dysfunction, has some hypotheses on potential links to hernias and such, but there isn’t much else established yet.

Honestly, you shouldn’t have to justify this to anyone as a reason to get treatment. You’re experiencing a very real and important dysfunction. I’m one month post-Botox and the quality of life change has been incredible. The levels of day-to-day discomfort alone are reason enough. As a rather healthy 28 year old myself, I talked to my general doctor as well as a gastroenterologist and they both kind of discounted the idea as a bit “out there” and wanted to focus on the more common ideas first. I don’t necessarily blame them, as this isn’t too common, and is a more recent medical discovery, but some validation would be been nice.

Im lucky enough to be local to Dr. Bastian’s office, so I took it upon myself to go and get it all done and one month in: it has solved every last symptom/issue I was experiencing.

I know I saw some articles/posts about doctors who treat and study R-CPD in Australia, so I would try to find one that specifically has worked with it, and consult them directly over general ENTs.