@sounder27 You are welcome. I had this problem of re-occurring lung infections for a couple years and told my functional medicine doctor about this many times. We had retested all my allergies for my injections and he had prescribed generic Singulair in addition to an inhaler. Since he is the one testing me and prescribing the compounded hormones, he should have figured this out. He had started lowering my dose a while ago, but it was still too high. It's been long enough, that going without hormones isn't bad. It's the changing levels that cause hot flashes and I'm probably more stable now on my own without them. I'm still going to take some and the female brain has estrogen receptors, so it helps with mental sharpness. I plan on relaying this information about hormones to my pulmonologist, but I was waiting for a period of time to see if the cycle is broken, and I think it is.