I have to say, you sound almost exactly like me. Usually, I have a schedule, not a good one, but at least one, where I go to sleep from about 2am to noon. Lately, I cannot sleep at night and sleep during the day; I would say for the last week I feel so tired all the time yet I cannot sleep.

I get some energy, than its gone! Its weird.

This only happens to me when I have over exerted myself in mania and I am on the verge of collapsing into depression. Have you had a chance to tell your doctor?

I have sleep problems, too. I'm not manic during these times, I am just unable to sleep and am wide awake. Then, I might get a couple of hours during the day on the sofa or something but it sucks. It's not every night but when it happens, it's dreadful!!!
I started taking a safe herbal med called Melatonin that works for me on some nights. Give it a try, it takes a while to work, just like all these crazy meds we have to take but hopefully it will work for you.

I've tried melatonin before and it doesn't help. I have ambien which does help me stay asleep but it doesn't make me feel tired it might help me get to sleep though I'm not sure. If I lie down and try it helps but I will not notice it working. I use it very sparingly because It makes me sleep even longer than normal.

In the hospital I was on trazadone and adavan it made me constantly wake up and have night mares and hallucinations. Trazadone alone does nothing. Adavan does help me relax but not sleep.

But I'm more worried about sleeping too much but I do have periods where I don't sleep at all. I don't mind them too much because I stay awake do to the fact that I'm just not tired. But I have a tendency to sleep for days and nights at a time, more than being awake for days and nights.

I'm just feeling frustrated with sleeping all the time. I'm already unmotivated as it is. But I can't even progress forward if I'm asleep.

when i was on break for college, i fell into a terrible sleeping pattern. i wouldn't be able to fall asleep before 3am and would sleep until between 1-4pm. it was terrible. i would sleep the day away and then not be able to fall asleep and sleep all night until 3 or 4 am.
now that i'm back at school it's gotten better. but it still takes me atleast an hour or two to fall asleep.

This can be so frustrating. When I get like this, I am usually depressed even when I dont feel like it emotionally. It usually means I need a med adjustment. In the past I would go months like this and it was difficult to live life, even drive or engage in any activity. I did push myself but understand that aweful foggy, lack of concentration, delerium. I felt very lethargic.

I hope you feel better, maybe a visit to your pdoc? Meds can truly help...xo

GO TO YOUR GENERAL DOCTOR AND HAVE SOME BLOOD TESTS RUN.....

you can have a under active thyroid, or worse...... dont wait.

thanks shelly I'm going to the pdoc on the 31st. She knows all about this. Its been an ongoing problem for over a year now. The hospital stay helped me get back on a schedule for awhile but I quickly went back to what is natural for my body. I've been trying to correct it with medication for awhile now. I remain hopeful.

I'm not sure if she would be willing to put me on an antidepressant or not. I've wondered if it would help. Many antidepressants don't do anything for me and some make me manic. I love being manic but I'm not very productive that way. But at least while manic I was doing more than what I do now which is sleeping all the time.

This used to be like me.. until i got put on seroquel... let me tell you with that med it's made me sleep at the right times and has made me feel totally alert and well and motivated during the day!

trueblue I've had my thyriod tested many times already it isn't that. I almost wish it was because then I could medicate it and get it taken care of. I really don't know how to permanently fix this because over time I go back to sleeping all day and awake all night. Even if I stay awake all day, I'm tired all day but as soon as night roles around I'm right back awake again. It's a never ending cycle.

amyjames

I've been on serequol even at a low dose I slept two days straight and nothing woke me up not even my alarm. I woke up two days later very confused as to what day it was and what had happened. I remember waking up once when I tossed and turned and banged my head on the wall, but after that I went right back to sleep. Plus I can not be on most anti psychotics because they cause me to have breathing problems. I now only take anticonvulsant medications.

But thank you every one for your responses. I just wondered if I was alone or if any one else had experienced this.