You 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

You 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.