Is there a medicine/pill to stop the laughter?

[Pooky]

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.

[178j]

i take celexa its balances the chemicals in the brain it is also an anti depressant but it has been a great help to me i had a hemmoragic stroke june 10,99 this is worth looking into 178j

[janet119]

hi i was in the same boat. i take 20mgs of paxil for it. my friend too but she takes 150mgs of effexor and has had significant return to her arm since she started to take it
janet

[suse104]

pooky.
I had a hemorrhagic stroke as well, back in 96'. I too seem to laugh a great deal easier, AND at inappropriate times. I went to a friends' over the weekend and I heard myself laughing at almost everything - and yes, sometimes when I "shouldn't* have.
I don't know if there's anything that can be taken for it. I kind of try to not beat myself up about it - people usually are quite understanding I've found.
I've noticed I tend to be my own worse critic, and I have to say I've lightened up about it a great deal.
Whatever you decide to do - much luck to you!
((((((hugs))))))
Susan