Early symptoms? Or what led you to see a doctor?

To preface, I'm not sure what's going on with my body at any given moment because of the handful of disorders I have and cocktail of medications I'm on--it gets hard to tell what's a symptom of what and what's a side effect of medication. I have this pain toward the back of my head, above the ear (best I can describe is if you put both your hands on your head, splayed out, it is right around where your right thumb rests), and it's come and go for months now but has steadily been more frequent and more painful. It's a dull ache very much like a bruise that worsens significantly when pressed. I've also got stiff neck muscles, especially on the right hand side where my neck kinda always lowkey feels as if I'm turning my head to the left. Other than that, I wouldn't say I have any symptoms I would ascribe to this problem.

(I also have chronic migraines, but those are consistently around my eye/eyebrow and present with severe nausea and sensory sensitivity.)

I have no idea if this might be ON or tension headaches, or something else entirely, but I guess my issue is wanting to know when y'all reached your limit coping with your symptoms before you sought diagnosis. I've got disillusionment with doctors, though I know it's best to go for any medical worry of course, due to being put through thousands of dollars of invasive tests when I was passing gallstones for years--when it could've been caught by a simple ultrasound. Not crazy about going to the doctor to be told it's cause I sit bad or whatever and to take tylenol (and then be scolded when my bloodwork comes back wonky because I'm taking tylenol) lmao.

TLDR I am seeking motivation to see pain as more than something I can treat with commonsense methods like stretching and OTC pain meds