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I was waiting about 6 hours, and decided to leave and go to immediate care instead. My partner and I have enough medical bills as it is because of his own condition, and my family had me convinced it was probably just a pinched nerve. Immediate care was unconcerned and thought my neck was probably just stiff, though they admitted they didn't have the tools necessary to check for a pinched nerve. The pain dissipated over that night/ next day, and I haven't had a problem with it since. Then after I've started feeling aches on my left side during isolated incidents when I normally wouldn't before that. I wouldn't even describe it as pain, more "huh, that's a bit uncomfortable." I guess I can also describe it as now I occasionally don't "bounce back" right away. Like ringing out a rag made my left fingers a bit sore, sitting a bit too long on my left ankle made me limp slightly for just a couple minutes when I got up, just little stuff like that.

If the "holy f*ck I can't move the upper half of my body more than an inch without feeling like I'm getting shot" pain happens again, definitely taking an Aleve and scheduling a doctor's appointment. Not doing so now because I don't have the money for a problem that barely effects me for maybe a few minutes at a time. (The crunchy shoulder is all the time, but it doesn't really feel like anything.)

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Good call on going to immediate (or sometimes called Urgent) care instead of the ER. People are seen a lot faster at an Urgent Care Center if there is one near you. They can't prescribe scheduled drugs and don't have the full capabilities of an ER, but a lot of our problems can be addressed first at Urgent Care. And if they can';t help you, they'll give you a referral which will speed things up.

I'm not sure what to say about your symptoms. You're awfully young to be going through this I think.

You did mention you wear a chest binder. I'm not familiar with these but basically sounds like a version of a corset but for TG bio females. Do you think this could be causing problems?

All the best to you.

https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/what-is-chest-binding

You are likely aware of this, so ignore if that's the case. It does come from WebMD and that is usually a reliable medical source.

Feel better.