When I was working night shift I would be freezing and sick to my stomach from lack of sleep a lot. Your MIND may be in mania land, but your body is screaming for rest.

Are you sure you aren't seeing my Pnurse? She also said the sleep issue would resolve if the hypomania resolved. I had been whining for 10 minutes on her couch in a lovely state of hypomania at the time. I also knew my body couldn't take much more. Increases of my Lithium and Lamictal fixed my sleep. Of course then I had the Lamictal reaction from HELL and I am stuck in Lithium land for the time being.

Really the Lithium by itself has been the best overall for me. Lamictal made me dumb as a rock. My other choice is Abilify...but if I'm not psychotic I don't want to take antipsychotics. Those drugs really turn you into a dumb rock in my opinion.