Is that this week? The top of the normal range for platelets is 450 so it isn't that bad. Your white cells are higher than is usual even with pred but not outlandishly so, they easily go up with other things like a bit of a cold. The easy bruising and dizzy spells could be of concern but we all bruise easily on pred don't we!
What are the dizzy episodes like? Are you feeling any palpitations before hand?
I occasionally have palpitations...but never put the two together....The dizzy spells at first were just feeling off kilter....last week I didn't realise and almost walked into the road and hung on to someone's bin until the episode passed..
Keep a diary, symptoms and times relative to one another. Dizzy spells like that need to be taken seriously.
I had dizzy episodes but all that could be identified on a single occasion that happened while I was having a 24 hour BP monitor, was that my BP plunged in seconds that coincided with the dizzy sweating attack. A few years later it was found I was having episodes of quite fast heart rate followed immediately by a few seconds pause in heart beat. And that was what caused the dizziness. It's fine if you are sitting down at the time - but it happened to a close friend when he was at the top of the stairs and he fell down them and broke his neck, now he is in a wheelchair!
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19 and a half days in.....
Reducing after flare up.
Rheumy nurse looses the plot (I think)
Diverticulosis, ER Trip, Phone call with Rheumy
GP call for blood test 
