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Originally Posted by mrsD
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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My lymphocyte count was in the normal range for my regular blood test. For my spinal tap it was very high but I had what they call a "traumatic tap". I don't know exactly what that means but they didn't mention anything at all wrong with my spinal fluid at the hospital.
On my spinal tap it indicates that my rbc count, neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, macrophage, and eosinophil were very high.
When I went to the infectious disease dr., he was visually scanning my records and I heard him say to himself, "bloody tap". I have never officially asked anyone exactly what those levels indicate, but thought it might be because blood got in that shouldn't be there
