Lyndies:
I cannot tell you for sure what's going on but here are my thoughts:
I am about 10 weeks out from Prestige ST at c5/6. Neck and shoulder muscles were extremely tight--after all, my neck was being stretched by the ADR and I gained some height. I am wondering if that is what you are experiencing both with the tightness in your throat and the arm pain (although the throat issues are also the result of being intubated during surgery). In addition, I experienced problems with my left shoulder (on which I had had a rotator cuff repair previously) which I think were the result of positioning during surgery, since I woke up with a bruise on that shoulder. Flexoril helped with the muscle spasms and PT and massage helped with the shoulder issues, as well as a side-sleeper memory foam pillow. At this point, the muscle spasms in my neck are just about gone.
All I can say is that this has been my experience. I hope you will experience improvement soon but if you are worried, the best advice would be to call the surgeon.
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