I thought this stuff was supposed to help me sleep and tamp down any budding mania?

Since I started it on Friday night, I've slept really good....but it's hard for me to get to sleep till well after midnight because I'm so keyed up. I've been happy, hyperactive, jittery, loud, profane, irritable, AND euphoric all week---gotten a ton of work done and been having a helluva good time doing it. This incredible energy is what I live for......and yet, I'm vaguely aware that it'll turn on me. It always does.

What I don't know is why it's only been this way since I started the new med. I'd been ramping up slightly over the past 2 weeks, but Sunday I was quite a bit higher, and Monday I was in full-blown whateverthehellthisis. (I say that because my pdoc doesn't let me diagnose myself....of course, HE'S in Hawaii, and I'm here bouncing off the walls. Haha!)

Anyway, I'm having a great time, and today was the most awesome day of all---we had an entire afternoon of sun, and it must have been 60 degrees outside. So I was out there soaking it up and I got even MORE energetic, so I was driving home at like 80 MPH (normally I'm very conservative as a driver) and watching the gorgeous sunset and thinking, "damn, if I get in a wreck on this freeway and die, at least I'll go out on a high note!"

I don't want to change anything. I love feeling this way. But I've done my research and can't find anything on Geodon causing the whateverthehellthisis. Maybe I was just gearing up for a mood episode anyway, maybe the dose is too low to calm it down, maybe it's a paradoxical reaction......who knows? Just wanted to see if anyone else has experienced hypo/mania on this drug. Thanks! May the Force be with you.