There are a number of possible explanations for your experience; coincidence - the pain faded and returned within a few weeks of you wearing and removing the bracelet; or subconscious placebo effect - despite you not consciously remembering an association between metal wristbands and pain relief, you have probably seen such an advert - the placebo effect works subconsciously and can work even if you're aware it's a placebo; perhaps you just noticed the pain less while wearing the bracelet - it was a subtle distraction; it's also possible that wearing the bracelet subtly affected your movement which helped reduce the pain - it would depend on the location and type of pain; perhaps once you noticed the pain reduction, there was a nocebo effect when you removed the bracelet; or it could be retrospective confirmation bias and memory distortion - once you became aware of that there seemed to be a connection between wearing the bracelet and reduced pain, that relationship and the remembered effect was unconsciously exaggerated in retrospect.
I'm not saying any of these are true, but stuff like this is the reason that only a well-controlled and blinded trial can confirm whether the perceived effect (pain relief) really is a result of the claimed cause (magnetic bracelet).
As Richard Feynman said, "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."
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I would consider it...
