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Anyone with experience of hormone replacement therapy impacting their asthma?

Hi,
I'm curious if others have experience with HRT (hormone replacement therapy) impacting their asthma.
I'm a 55-year-old woman and have had asthma since I was a child. I would say that it has mostly been well controlled in that by taking medication (asthma and allergy) and avoiding triggers, I would only have a few flare-ups a year, and these were generally recovered from within a couple of weeks using prednisone and antibiotics.
In October of 2021 I started hormone replacement therapy, at the time when I researched this and spoke to my doctors there was no concern about impact to my asthma.
However, and I've just noticed the possible connection, I've had four significant flare-ups that take months to recover from and am currently 3 months into a flare-up.
I've found some reports and read some articles here about the fact that HRT can worsen asthma and am now questioning if I should continue the HRT (it has helped me in other areas). I have plans to review all this with my doctors, so am not looking for medical advise, but am wondering if anyone else has taken HRT and whether it impacted their asthma.
Thank you.

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