There are other scar tissue causing compression stories on our forum. It’s not as common a cause as styloid or stolyoid vs C-1 but it does happen. I grew up in the era of take the tonsils out & 2 of my 3 siblings also had their removed but each of us had a substantial reason for it i.e. I would go deaf when I had a cold as my tonsils would swell & keep fluid from draining out of my ears. Tonsillectomy resolved that. My sister had chronic tonsillitis & hers would get big enough they nearly closed off her throat so were a danger to her life. My other sister had naturally large tonsils & adenoids which caused her snore loudly as a child & keep us all awake at night so hers were taken out. I guess I was born into a family w/ bad tonsil heredity 
though I’m surprised that with your chronic infections, you weren’t a tonsillectomy candidate.
At any rate, I’m glad your surgery is done, & you’re on the recovering end of things. I’m not sure 6 weeks is really long enough to get a good sense of which symptoms are going to go away. For me it was 2 mos post op then about every 2 mos over the course of a year after that, that something else would disappear. I expect you’ll have good recovery as time passes. The early days after surgery are the hardest.