Wow - I just had my surgery last month (4/11) and I started having shoulder problems almost immediately. I do try exercising my right arm as I was told to do by my surgeon - basically take a 2lb weight and bring it up horizontally and hold - I am at about 25% - can't raise my arm up all the way. Typically around mid-afternoon, I am having bouts of serious, acute shoulder pain. So much so that the Lortab my surgeon prescribed to me for my tongue (I presume) pain post-op (which I don't have - just a slight burning sensation), I am using when my shoulder pain gets so bad that I'm on the verge of tears - and I usually have a very high pain threshold. With what I'm reading here - folks with this pain years after surgery - I am going to ask my surgeon to prescribe physical therapy NOW before this gets any worse... He did tell me that I must exercise it in order to avoid "shoulder freeze."