I have a medical card for edibles and such and also discovered Ceres Fruit Chews, Sativa and Indica. Now they recommended RSO, which is made from the whole plant, very sticky, nasty taste but I freeze it on parchment in the amount for my dose and put it in a container in the freezer. It will pop off the paper into my mouth and get it swallowed as quick as I can. It really helps with sleep. It also works for pain. Unfortunately my last bout with whatever I have going on, edibles would NOT help. It felt like a lightning bolt was going to shoot out my left hip! I iced, used heat and Tylenol. I’m a gastric bypass patient so we are not supposed to take NSAIDS! It hurts inside so bad, where all the little connections are will erode eventually. Now I’m on Celebrex and take it with food and a PPI. It does help to keep from hurting too bad.
Sorry so long. I have no idea what is going on but it just keeps it at bay.

I use an edible called RSO, it’s very thick, nasty liquid with the consistency of tar! I put it on parchment and freeze it, then it will pop off the paper and you can swallow it. It’s 1000mg in the syringe and I try to make 3 consistent dabs of it. You have to have a medical marijauna card but it has helped with my sleep so much! My brain won’t let me sleep, so this is a great therapy for me.

I was doing that too until I found gummies that work well for me. I hated keeping my government employed husband and son looking at my freezer stash. Also, I had a hard time being certain of the exact dose. Seeing that you live in WA, I was there visiting my daughter this past May. While there I found Ceres fruit chews 1:1 sativa gummies. Half of one was awesome! They're fast acting and wonderful for getting giggly and banishing depression. Significant pain reduction to. Ceres Magnum 1:1 vape is also quite nice. I'm looking forward to going back to WA next May, definitely plan to do a bit of shopping. BTW, in WA you don't need a medical card anymore. You guys have gone full recreational. 😎

I understand all you said. One of our MM providers started making RSO gummies and also distills tinctures. I seem to recall reading that Ceres is a full spectrum (aka RSO) producer. I looked for that quality when I was shopping there. For your concentrate dab dots, if you let them dissolve in your mouth they will be faster acting and more bioavailable so that your body can actually have a chance at benefitting from the smaller molecules of the terpenes and lesser CBD components of the oil. Your mouth is less acidic than your gut and with the bypass surgery, your gut potentially does not absorb nutrients optimally. If you can eat peanut butter, try putting your dab in that to dissolve in your mouth. THC is fat soluble and the pb fat content helps your body absorb the molecules too.

For pain, I actually find topical application far more affective. If you can tolerate the other ingredients in it, namely menthol which actually burns my skin, you might consider the Dragon 1:1 deep tissue salve by Ceres. Nano sized cannabis particles soak in and go straight to the inflammation sites providing pain relief within minutes lasting for hours typically. I didnt find one I liked there in WA because I have sensitivity to menthol and capsaicin, popular ingredients. However, luckily for me, there's a producer here in FL that makes a fabulous non blood barrier penetrating (thus no intoxication) cream without those ingredients. If you can find a non transdermal (doesn't get in blood stream) one, I highly recommend trying it.

And, regarding the card for edibles, in case anyone else in WA is reading and wondering, it isn't necessary anymore. You can get anything and everything THC related without one in WA now. I did at two different dispensaries around Olympia and I'm a Floridian, no WA card holder. Full recreational state. My daughter isn't a card holder either. She can get everything.
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By "self-injecting pain relievers" from a Rheumatologist, are you talking about biologics? Rheumis are keen to prescribe those. However, they are not pain relievers. All they do is block specific inflammatory molecules that may or may not be causing your pain as a result of inflammation. The trick is determining what is causing the inflammation in your particular body. There are any different ones and for the most part that is not routinely tested for. They just start at the beginning of the insurance industry standard list of approved bios, depending on your insurer and policy. Then it can take months to know if it works or not, but, again, its not a pain killer like Vicodin. You're better off going the medical marijuana route if thats available where you live. Thats what a lot of patients getting off opioids turn to. Alternatively, if its occasional spasms like that, you might be just as good to take a Tylenol for arthritis and soak in a warm tub for an hour with half a bag of Epsom salt thrown in, so much the better if your tub is jetted. I'm sorry you're struggling with pain relief at this point in your life. My parents are in their 80s too. Its tough when you're hurting.😔🙏