Good comments, thank you.

I'm in regular contact with my rheumatologist and PCP, and have suggested moving to 25 mg of prednisone/day. However, I was only diagnosed on Feb 3, 2023, so I think my rheumatologist wanted to wait for a few weeks to see how I responded to the 20 mg/day I am taking now.

Well, a few weeks have passed, and I've just just had my 6th blood draw. The results are coming in. It appears my white blood cells and inflammation markers stabilized quickly after starting the 20 mg/day prednisone a few weeks ago, but have not changed further since then. So they are still quite high, but no longer extraordinarily so.