Does your bloodwork show elevated white cells? or depressed white cells?
Steroids suppress the immune system and if you have any infection, it might be stimulated. Low white cells may indicate an active viral process too. But then lupus does affect white cell production as well.
Steroids will flare herpes, or any other active viral process.
So you should consider this aspect carefully.
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