Boy Everybody, you scare me. I was diagnosed with Hashi's about 25 years ago and have had no problems that I know of related to that. No goiter, in fact the way my dr explained it, he said my body was attacking and destroying my thyroid. I seem to have very little thyroid left. My meds change a little evey once in a while (have been between 88mcg and 125 over 25 years - currently on the low end). Endo says there is an inverse relationship between cholesterol and TSH/T4. Way over my head, guess I wasn't good at chemistry. I accept that. Now, however, I have paresthesia/neuropathy on my face and the question that was brought up was does it have anything to do with autoimmune disease. 7 months with no taste, semi numb (tingling, shooting stars, etc - feels like novocane is wearing off, but it never leaves) lips, mouth, tongue, cheeks and nobody knows why. I thought it was related to the anethetic used (articaine) and now??? New thoughts are going through my head.