@clickingtorture-
First- my empathy to you for going through this.
Second-I am sorry you were recommended or even allowed to have a surgery for this. Even if you have now felt the “clicking” gone.
These are musculature issues to begin with. Long time holding patterns or ways you created muscular movements, tightness through out life. Period.
End up at a surgeons office for this and they will only cut and remove parts that are meant to be in your body. Once these parts are removed for one problem, your body tries to recover and learn to function with what was genetically programmed to do for a long time. And will develop knew issues due to a missing system.
These parts are all developed to function together in a fine way. Remove parts and there goes the system and, you will then develop new issues from surgical damage, scarring, which now sounds like is happening for you. The skin that lines your throat is epithelial tissue. Once that is cut into it is replaced w/scar which is regular skin. And does nothing that epithelial tissue does. With 4 surgeries, I’m wondering if the surgeon ever even talked to you about what scarring will do to this area?
I find it sad that many patients are taken advantage in this way. Surgeons do not view the body as a whole system, only in parts. They have no idea how they will be affecting the rest of the body by removing parts all for the sake of a “noise/sound” that could have been helped with therapy and proper education.
If surgeons knew more about the body and properly educated patients, they’d be out of a job.

There is an old saying, if you don’t have a problem now, wait until you see the doctor.