i too have had a high pain tolerance...but being in chronic pain over the years..along with p-medication breaks that down for you. i do realize now i did do more harm letting things go than fixing them
Even today i let something go for 7 months because i felt like i was bothering my doc too much wich i really don't...but i can handle things i always have than it turned into a disaster...and if i would have only taken care of it months ago it would have been an almost easy fix...althouh i didn't know how easy at the time.

i think we all just get so tired, and say to ourselve well what can the doctor really do for us...maybe i'm alone on this one but this is how i think.

don't do it on your own and get the help or try to push yourself to care for your body..i never listened because i was invincible, and i always only had me to look out for no one else did....you will litteraly be hitting yourself in the future when your body gives (not saying yours will...mine did)

hope all is a little better be nice to yourself, try a massage take some healing time