if your own body's alkalinity is fucked up, i'd consider sourcing the g differently, switching to ghb if youre using gbl, or tweak your method of synthesization. concerning the withdrawal/rebound, i find them pretty mild, but very troubling. i take g to help with anxiety, motivation, and overall happiness. but as most of us come to realize is the g stops providing this. if you can get a couple days off, just sit in your room and be miserable for two days, funny tv shows and movies tend to help a tiny bit (as with any withdrawal). tapering is very hard to do because a huge part of this is waiting 4 hours (prefereably 6 hours) between each dose, makes it so you can taper of relatively quickly. if you're not giving the g time to leave your system youre going to be tapering for a very long time, weeks, months. after a while taking g to feel better stops working, so why do it this way is my opinion. the sleep part is one of the stickiest parts to deal with and i havent nailed it down yet. sometimes, taking seroquel, trazadone, and vistaril together helps immensely, mostly it doesn't though. as far as daytime use, take 400 mg of lyrica, wait an hour or two and you wont even feel like taking g, you just wont. i havent been able to procure a big enough supply to use it for a while instead of g, but i'm doing that next week hopefully. out here fighting the fight people. best i can do right now is wait four and half hours between doeses, when i'm NOT at work, lol. so that only gives me two days a week to stop a bit