My son educated me on the medical benefits of marijuana. Cancer patients will use it to relieve severe pain. I have used it a couple of times because my arthritis is so bad. And it did work. I felt awesome, but I’m bipolar too and it throws me into a manic state so I can’t use it for pain, but it may be an option for you. You can smoke it vape it or take Gummies but the problem with the gummy’s is that you take it and four hours later you don’t have relief so you take more And then by that time you have taken too much. So I would recommend vaping. It’s easier to handle and control the dosage. I would get the marijuana that includes the CBD. This is not an opiate, but it greatly helped with pain.