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I am wracking my brain to try to remember these conversations from a couple years ago, but I am pretty sure you can't test for Lupus if you have Hashimoto's (an
by jmintz 16y ago
I am wracking my brain to try to remember these conversations from a couple years ago, but I am pretty sure you can't test for Lupus if you have Hashimoto's (and it's pretty hard to test for Lupus anyways). They just eliminated so many other things that they started treating them for Lupus and it helped enough they decided that is what it was. I will try to get more info from the source soon.
- carbocation 16y agoThat sounds incorrect. Lupus and Hashimoto's can coexist. It's not something I know all that much about, but if anything, Hashimoto's, like many autoimmune diseases, is associated positively with others: http://www.mdconsult.com/das/article/body/203965646-2/jorg=journal&source=&sp=22862642&sid=0/N/733434/1.html?issn=0002-9343 http://www.mdconsult.com/das/article/body/203965646-2/jorg=j... Among those with Hashimoto's, the relative risk for having lupus is 6.23-20.0. Thus, Hashimoto's is positively predictive. There is no reason that an inflammatory thyroiditis should mask ANA, anti-Ro, anti-La, etc. (If there is, though, please do tell me about it because that would be some very useful knowledge.)
- jmintz 16y agoYou could very well be correct, I am trying to remember something I heard second hand a couple of years ago. But I emailed my relative who went through all this to find out exactly what happened. And I am pretty sure they have both Hashimoto's and Lupus, it was just that Hashimoto's made it more difficult to detect Lupus.