Ever since my stroke, I've had emotional lability. Directly after the stroke, I cried all the time. After the crying ended, I started to laugh all the time (at inappropriate times). It's almost 2 years since my stroke, and I still laugh a lot; even at things that aren't even funny. I think that laughing all the time makes me look stupid/dumb, and I want to stop. The only problem is, I just can't hold my laughter in. Yesterday, I was in the store and I wrote a check to pay for my stuff [actually, my sister wrote the check (because my handwriting isn't legible all the time) and I just signed it]. Anyway, just signing the check made me laugh. I laughed for a full minute. So, if you know of a medicine/pill that will stop the laughing, will you please tell me the name of it? At first, I thought that the anti-depressent, Paxil, caused me to laugh, but I've been off that drug since March and I still laugh a lot. I go to see my doctor in mid-July, and am going to ask her about a medicine to stop my laughing all the time, but if she doesn't know of one, I would like to be able to suggest one to her. I just hope that she's able to prescribe something, because I start back at college in September, and I won't feel comfortable if I laugh all the time.

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I had a hemorrhagic stroke on September 8, 1999.