Things are going even better than expected! I have no spontaneous bruising or bleeding and my platelets today were at 96,000 (hemoglobin at 13.1). I asked the hematologist how my platelets could have gone UP after lowering the Prednisone and he said he had no idea, but he didn’t want to jinx it. He said not to read into it and to just be happy. I am definitely okay with that! Because my platelets are responding so well to the decrease in Prednisone, he tapered me AGAIN! A week early! I start 20mg a day tomorrow and then I see him in two weeks (October 19th) for a follow-up and, presumably, the next taper.