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Hearing loss and thyroid medication: Is there a connection?

Posted by ainsleigh @ainsleigh, Apr 20, 2021

My Endocrinologist decreased my Synthroid medication and since then my hearing loss has increased. I am trying to connect with her to discuss it. Has anyone had
a similar experience? Would appreciate input.
Thanks,
Ainsleigh

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happy2bhere | @happy2bhear | Aug 9, 2021
In reply to @julieo4 "Thank you for following through on the survey. I agree with you about captions. Are you..." + (show)
@julieo4

Thank you for following through on the survey. I agree with you about captions. Are you familiar with the speech to text apps that are available? They work quite well. Many HH people use the app in sync with videos that are not captioned. It's not perfect, but it helps.

FYI: A major effort by a national board member of HLAA managed to circulate a petition for Zoom to include automatic speech recognition (ASR) to their platform. That petition got close to a million signatures and while Zoom resisted this for months, they have now added ASR. The only catch is that it must be activated in the 'host' settings by whomever is scheduling meetings. So, the people who need this, those of us with hearing loss, must ask them to activate it prior to the Zoom event. Once it is activated by a host it will remain activated unless they reset it to be inactive. Only those who need/want it have to see it. It's activated by the participant by one of those 'buttons' on the bottom left of the computer screen.

The only reason we have made progress on issues like this is because the people who want the change get involved. HLAA provides the opportunity to get involved. That actually even involved those TV captions that were mandated back in the early '90s.

So much to learn. Have you considered joining HLAA? http://www.hearingloss.org

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I get emails from HLAA. And signed up to Zoom thru them. I don’t work so I haven’t used the app and wondered how the captions appear. I will ask a friend to start a meeting to see if we can get it to work. Thanks for that tip. And thanks for all updated info in this area.

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joyces | @joyces | Aug 10, 2021

reply to happy2bhere re lack of video captions:

These days, we can no longer simply buy Adobe's Creative Suite, which used to cost a mere $1,600 or so...we have to rent it for $60/mo., which is $720 /year...forever, or at least until the raise the monthly charge! The swell new software has eliminated many of the things most of used every day, but there's no after-market manual to buy to learn all the tricks of the new software to simply do what we used to do easily. Instead, Adobe provides videos...without captions, of course. It's just not possible to follow the video, figure out what's being said, and learn. I've complained to Adobe, without result so far.

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