Hello, I'll keep a long story short. I am diagnosed Bipolar type 1. Have struggled with severe illness in the past. Now married, trying for a baby, living a great life, and Bipolar in remission. 

I recently quit working to stay home and focus on my studies. I am home for 8 hour stretches when my husband is at work. Lately though, I've been oddly...productive? Just constantly needing to move. Cleaning. And more cleaning. My house looks like a magazine picture (hell yeah, who doesn't love a clean space?). I just feel this need to be doing something constantly. Maybe I'm  bored because I'm  home all day now? But I just feel so full of energy. Mopped all my bathrooms today, so hey, that's cool. Also, just....lots of thoughts in my mind. Spending my time researching, reading, and writing. Also, embarrassing, but I'm spending a great deal of time talking to myself. And day dreaming. Again, maybe no big deal. But I know my history.

Now a bigger issue, I cannot sleep. At all. We went on a beach trip a couple weeks ago. I couldn't  sleep in the hotel. But ya know, it's a hotel. So I thought nothing of it. I didn't sleep a full night the whole trip. But when we got home, I still couldn't sleep. My husband sleeps at 9pm because he works early shifts. But I found myself staying up until 1 or 2am. Thought nothing of it. But this past several days, I am REALLY not sleeping. Staying up until sunrise. Walking around the house at night. Staying up and reading and researching and writing and having conversations in my head. Terrible restless legs when I do sleep. Finally fell asleep at 2:30 last night. Woke up at 5am fully awake and ready to get up. Irritated that my husband was fast asleep. Could. Not. Sleep. Thought to myself, I will take a nap later in the day, well, that time has passed and no nap was taken. I am wired with energy. 

Obviously I am going to contact my doc. What do your manic onset symptoms look like? How does Bipolar affect your sleep cycles? Anyone up for late night chats since I can't sleep?