product literacy/advice

hey all.

so i’ve been an MC user for around 6 months now. prior to this i hadn’t touched the stuff in well over 13 years, and even then, i was a teenager with limited access and knowledge. Gummy’s are useless to me - any kind of ingestible process will fail because my liver doesn’t have the enzyme or whatever, so i’ve been exclusively prescribed flower since early in my journey. it’s fine, but it’s just… sometimes it’s a lot of work, you know?

all that preamble to say, i feel like i’m actually clueless. can somebody explain carts/vaping to me?
specifically:
what do i look up or look for on catalyst to know i’m looking at the correct product?

i’ve tried dry herb vaping with the MediVape+ and i felt like it did absolutely nothing for me - i had to burn
proportionately far more flower to feel even some effects.

is vaping with the cartridges different? is it something worth talking to my clinic/dr about, or is it likely that if dry herb vaping didn’t work for me, carts are probably just going to waste my money?

my doctor is great if i come knowing what i want, but he’s not trying to upsell me, so it seems unlikely this conversation will be productive with him unless i’ve looked into it myself (which is this, now).

sorry if this is like, a dumb or frustrating post, i am a generally pretty naive person, and the internet has a lot of information that isn’t always correct or helpful, but i appreciate if anybody is able to answer my questions.