After three days i start halusinating badly isn't there something you can take.

No sleep for a few days sends me into a big depression.
I found out it's common to bipolars.

I usually only can't sleep when I'm manic or having mixed episodes...I stayed up for 2 weeks one time, it was bad. I usually just try to exhaust myself, which works occasionally, and when it doesn't, at least I've been productive.

i used to take trazodone and then remeron neither of them are working right now..my MD gives me ambien occassionally but you can build up a tolerance to that...my bipolar is on a pretty even keel now, i usually get this way when i'm manic...you're right i get weird after a few days of no sleep

oh yeah, i clean everything in the house and cook enough to last for days!!

ambien never worked for me, just made me groogy and i didn't sleep, I did take Trazadone too and it knocked me dead out.

sometimes i stay up for around seven days.it makes me very strange and quit impossiable to be near.i used to try and drink myseflf,but all that did was get my drunk and take huge risks.i have tried all the sleeping pills out there none of which work.who says we need alot of sleep anyway if i can just close my eyes for a few hours it helps even if i don't sleep.but anything past four nights and look out here comes trouble.i often end up on a suicide watch for a couple of days.the hospital is so over burdened the pretty much give me the boot.i'd hurt the staff but that would just get me jail.

I too get on the no sleep for days thingy. I hate it because sleep medication seems to just get me wired and makes me more cranky. I do get a lot of stuff done especially at night.

yeah mimi, me too. I think the longest I have gone with no sleep at all is 6 days, although I have gone for weeks on 4 hours or less a night, with sporadic sleepless nights thrown in.
Even now, I am taking this seroquel which is supposed to knock me out, but it takes me 2 hours to fall asleep and then I have only slept 6 or 7 hours. I have heard others say they were knocked out for 12 or even 20 hours after taking this stuff, and these were fellow bipolar people from this site!

i am also guilty of this.. it tends to come in waves.. its awful just lying there trying to sleep, but your mind bouncing off the walls from one thing to another. i usually end up getting out of bed to find myself something to do. i have been known to shampoo the carpets at 3:30am.