Hello John hopefully you wont hit one here too I do not know what direction to point you at, so hopefully some of the others may have a clue. I looked up hashimotos and found a few things here about it here is a link to the autoimmune forum, should be a good place to start your inquiries and do not hesitate to ask folks here are kind and helpful, again welcome to NT
forum link
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum44.html