"i have a lot of different types of pain, but the two constant pains i have are arthritis and tailbone pain. the best way i have found to describe it is that it&#039;s like sitting on a sharpened egg. for fourteen years . i am only pain free for about three hours every day. i take two vicodin in the morning (my bedtime, as i work third shift). it takes about an hour to really hit. i take one when i wake up and four and one more when i go back to sleep for three hours at nine. with the two latter doses, my pain isn&#039;t completely gone, but the edge is dulled. i can deal with it. i have been taking vicodin for eight years. if someone knows a physician who would be willing to remove my tailbone, it would probably cut my use in half."