Go to the doc... it's always better to go and it be something little and easily fixed than not go and it turns into something serious.

I hurt my left hand playing rugby and didn't go to the doctor cause I didn't want to sit out games. A few months ago (about a year after the injury) I started getting shooting pains in my hand when I moved it a certain way, and I had been shaky since the injury happened. One of the bones in my hand popped out when I got hurt, and I just kinda kept popping it back in. The last time I popped it back in, it looks like it snagged the already-irritated nerve and basically pinched it in between the two bones, which was causing the shooting pain. The doc said he wanted to do surgery, but I said no, and so he popped the bone back out, which freed the nerve, basically massaged the nerve out of the way, and popped the bone back in.

Pain.

For.

YEARS.

It hurt SO bad. But now I am left with no more shooting pains.. but my hand shakes because the nerve is damaged. Had I gone to the doc earlier, they could have prevented some of the damage and I probably never would have developed the shake. It goes from barely shaking to really bad. I would definitely just bite the bullet and go to the doc.