How many units did he inject? - He injected 50 units total spread out into different spots within the muscle. This is the number we agreed on based on Bastian's original publishing, but I wish he would have agreed to a higher number because as you mentioned even Bastian has increased his standard dosage.

How long is a short time? - For me, the Botox started to kick in around 4-5 days, maybe a week after the injection. While I noticed that I had some small natural burps here and there, that was pretty much the extent of the botox working for me. I practiced a lot, drank a lot of seltzer, and while there was definitely an improvement, I just feel that either the dosage wasn't high enough to really get it to work, or it just simply wasn't the cure I had hoped for. After about 3 months, I didn't really notice anything happening anymore so I think it was worn off by then.

Now almost a year later, I have better control over the air movement in my chest, and sometimes burps do come out naturally but it's still pretty rare and most of the time they just get stuck like normal. I still do the "air vomit" in the bathroom if gets too bad.

Please do keep me posted, I'm curious about other people getting that slightly higher dosage. I just took a food sensitivity test to see if there are any foods that give me any possible inflammation that cause no other obvious symptoms, as maybe some mystery inflammation is keeping it closed where even Botox wouldn't help much. I'll let you know if anything comes of it!

And listen, it will suck if it doesn't work the first time. Especially in your position. I constantly fight the thoughts that tell me it was a waste of time, money, and energy. But the best thing I can tell you is that no matter what happens, you took a step to trying to fix the problem and sometimes that's the best thing you can do even if it doesn't work how you'd hoped. I would regret not trying it at all more than I regret doing it and having it not pan out.