[ComfortablyNumb5]

How much sleep does everyone get per night? Me? Without meds, 2-4 hours. With 450mg seroquel, 9. If I get less than 9 I'm dragging ***** the next day and need a nap. But yea, 9 is my sweet spot.

[mindwrench]

I've been tracking it with an app. It varies between 3.5 and 6 hours but that is not continuous, I always wake up several times during that.

[Ripose]

About 3-5 times in a day and night but those 3-5 times are usually for about 1 hour. Sleeping 2 hours in a row is real treat for me.

[Wonderfalls]

I can sleep 9 or 10 luxurious hours with 50mg Seroquel and 3mg Lunesta, but I'm okay with 8 hours.

[venusss]

6-7 hours on weekdays, slightly more on weeks.

[raspberrytorte]

Between 8 and 9. I like my sleepy time.

[hopeless2015]

My latuda knocks me out for a good 6 hours then I'm awake off and on. I also have very weird dreams....but I'm getting sleep every night

[Unrigged64072835]

Between 7-10 hours, depending on dreams and stuff

[HALLIEBETH87]

It's so inconsistent that I have no clue!

[Theseus]

If we mean "in bed", then maybe 7-8 hours. If we mean "sleep", then it's way less. I wake up a lot, roll, toss and turn, and generally don't sleep well.

I don't take any meds that help me sleep. 8-9 hours is ideal. I don't actually sleep more that much more when I'm depressed, I just hang out in bed way longer. When my mind is racing I often get 4-6 hrs.

[goldenglitters]

maybe 6 hours in my energetic phases and I can sleep forever when I'm down. I need maybe 9 or 10 hours then to feel ok? but can easily sleep for 12 hours then as well...

[Hedocakes]

I'm usually managing like 3 hours a night because #StudentLife

it's awful and I don't think I've been fully rested in about a month

[scatterbrained04]

I get about 7-8 through the week and around 9 on the weekends. Except when I'm in an episode or have bad anxiety, then it's more like 4-6.

[Treyfrancis21]

I sleep 3- 4 hours after taking my latuda then I'm awake and having to take a sonata around 2am only to toss and turn until 6- 7. I think i average 6 hours a night.

Anywhere from 4-18 hours. Depends on my moods, medication, physical illness and pain. I think I sleep approx 10 hours when I'm most stable.

[OctobersBlackRose]

5-12hrs depending on the day.

[RomanJames2014]

When I am more hypo manic or manic i get about three hours of sleep at night. When I am depressed then I get about 13 hours of sleep a night.

[wiretwister]

one or two hours at a time ... maybe three to five during all night ... no med I have ever taken has helped long term .... funny thing is before this all started four years ago I was sleeping eight hours or more every night like a baby ...

I have to take a lot of meds to sleep. But I get about 7-9 hours. I wake up about 3 times a night.

[franz kafka]

9-10 hours with all my sedating meds

[Row Jimmy]

I'm all over the map - it depends on when I go to bed. Some days, my mind is firing at all cylinders and I don't really even know it. So I stay up until 1 or 2.....so that gives me about 4 hours. Then on other nights, I'm out by 10 so that is 7 hours of sleep. I find I often sleep well when I'm active with the gym and I stay on routine. When I'm off my routine, I tend to wing everything, sort of like a lost soul.

[Cocosurviving]

On school nights I sleep 7-8 hours long as I take all my meds. Then if I have no errands to run. I drop my daughter off at school I go back home and sleep another 6 hours

[xRavenx]

I was actually just wondering about the average amount of sleep among other people with BP....
Without meds (or when manic on meds, including Seroquel), I'd also say about 4 hours is average, but less when completely manic.
When at baseline and medicated, about 6-7.5 hours.
I noticed I feel best at 8 hours, but I can usually only get that much sleep on a weekend.

[BipolaRNurse]

I usually get between 7-9 hours with medication. If I don't take my nighttime meds (which happens only once in a blue moon), I get maybe 4 hours of broken sleep, so it behooves me to stay on my meds.