[SunAngel]

And I mean no sleep including naps.

I didn't sleep for 2 weeks straight when I was on Wellbutrin. Went into psychosis and almost ended up in the hospital again.

[popeye]

Three days several times....I wanted to drink myself to death.

Six days then nap for two or three hours then another 6 days very psychotic then. I try to keep it to three days now.

[manicminer]

I made it 52 hours straight once. It started off with drinking on the porch by myself, with others joining occasionally, for 19 hours straight.

[manicminer]

I went an entire semester in college sleeping 2 max 3 hours a night if i slept at all. Ended up in the hospital.

[Moose72]

Two days. Doesn't sound like a lot, but I was on the go the entire time, being manic. Finally was told to go to the PER. I was told to take Seroquel for sleep - I was currently on it. I slept 18 hours or so and was fine.

[ddizzy]

Longest I've gone is 12 days straight, ended up hitched hiking from San Diego,CA to Coeur d'Alene,ID. Shortly after I ended up in the hospital back in California.

[Yoda]

I went five days with no sleep at all and was hallucinating by then and was admitted to the hospital.

[GreenIvy]

The longest I have gone is 3 1/2 days. I take something to put me to sleep after hitting 3 days.

[siljie]

I'm not bipolar, but my reasons for not sleeping were because of PTSD. I went five days straight. It felt like I was dying.

[dirt69juggalo]

Four days with none at all. I did spend this last july with only 30 hours total though

[zbmom]

I think like 3 days but I don't know if it was due to hypomania or not. I remember having a ton of papers and projects due all at once in college and needing to plow through to get it all in on time.

[BNLsMOM]

I remember pulling a few all nighters in a row in college. Between classes, schoolwork, night job and fencing meets and fun I think I went three or so days.

[Secretum]

The longest I've ever gone was about 2 days. This, however, was due to international travel and not bp. It was hell, but it was worth it.

I've never been manic (only hypo), so I've never gone days on end w/out sleep because of a high. I can sometimes get away with 3 hrs when hypo, and then mentally laugh at those mortals who need caffeine after twice as much sleep the next morning! Never mind the fact that 99% of the time, I am one of those "mere mortals"....

78 hours.

[astone131]

The longest I have went is 5 days and ended up seeing and hearing things. Went to PDOC and got a shot of adivan and 2 adivan pills and slept the entire weekend

Originally Posted by Secretum

The longest I've ever gone was about 2 days. This, however, was due to international travel and not bp. It was hell, but it was worth it...

Same time frame, same reason. Wasn't hell though. Definitely affected the BP. Flipped me hypo and I loved every minute of it. Funny thing is that I wasn't dx'd at that time. Didn't think anything particularly unusual, but others commented on energy level. It was way up there... Went and went and went. I did sleep during those 3 weeks, but I don't remember being tired. And nobody could figure out how I got so much done or be so "bright eyed and bushy tailed" any hour of day or night...
This happened on 2 different trips a couple years apart. Looking back, now I know why.

Other times of lesser duration have usually been on account of work (recent). When finally getting a chance to go to sleep can't because I'm so wired from being up. (Eventually do, but then getting up from that am a mess.) Those don't kick me hypo. The wired part is intense, but only a few hours. And very unpleasant.

[ohlala]

When I was escalating into mania (it happened gradually and took 6-7 months) I slept less and less. Months 5 and 6 I slept about 3 or 4 hours, then 2 hours out of 24. The last 4 weeks (leading up to hospitalization) I slept 1 or none during 24 hours.

5 days that was first hospital stay. It was awful in full blown psychosis. Took awhile to come out of.

[SunReach]

Without closing my eyes at all...3 days.
With a couple of half an hour naps, 2 weeks.