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[jeremychang]

Essentially, Hashimoto's sufferers do not know they have Hashimoto's until their symptoms get very, very severe.

From what I understand, the symptoms of Hashimoto's at the beginning of the disease is falsely benign; meaning, even if they have the symptoms, they usually do not know they have Hashimoto's. Check out the list of symptoms: http://www.medicinenet.com/hashimotos_thyroiditis/article.htm#what_are_the_symptoms_of_hashimotos_thyroiditis.

Apparently, most people associate these symptoms as being old age and therefore they don't do anything about it. A person usually only knows something is wrong if these symptoms become very bad, or if their thyroid starts swelling.

This is as familiar I get with the disease progression. Someone with Thyroditis would be better equipped to answer this I think!