I'm so sorry about the sleep issue. It's awful when it starts happening to me. Can you get anything prescribed for sleep? I used to use Trazodone (hard to OD on but too much leaves you like a zombie the next morning, so you have to find the right dosage) and hydroxyzine. The Trazodone helped me fall asleep (though I had to allow for the hour or so it took to start working), the hydroxyzine to stay asleep. It was pretty effective. When I was trying to get pregnant with my daughter, I took a herbal remedies for sleep and stayed off most psych meds except Zoloft (which they used to feel was safe until you were pregnant, at the end of pregnancy and even while breastfeeding; I don't think they do anymore though). I took a combination of melatonin & and valerian (stinks to high heaven & if you have cats they will treat it like catnip). It is not recommended to combine the 2, but that was the only thing that worked for me. Ambien caused me panic attacks. Benadryl did nothing. Restoril may as well be candy. I usually drank a cup of chamomile tea (steeping it the max amount of time), the herbal valerian (capsule form) with melatonin, also pills. I bought each separately at a natural vitamin shop except the chamomile tea which is easily available in any grocery store. It was the only combo that made falling asleep feel normal, except for the stuff I was prescribed (the Trazodone/hydroxyzine combo - the hydroxyzine to stay asleep, the Trazodone to fall asleep). That stopped working after being hypomanic in March.

Now, I'm on Seroquel (well I was on that beforehand too but my pdoc upped the dosage for the mania and that usually puts me out quickly though I also take Clonidizine for sleep (you have to monitor the dosage of Clonidize though; it can make you very confused and super forgetful). For me, to the point where I did the drive-through ATM at the bank and left my debit card in the machine and drove off. Thank goodness the person behind me was honest and took the card inside to the bank. When the bank called me, I had no memory of forgetting the debit card and had gone shopping to several stores and was horrified that I'd done such a thing. I immediately called my pdoc, and he lowered the dosage of Clonidizine). My pdoc also has me take 5-10 mg melatonin for sleep if I have difficulty.