I am currently cleaning up my credit reports, but I am noticing that my scores are dropping significantly with each deletion. I went from a Equ-599, TU-589, Exp-608 to now 30 days later Equ-559, TU-566, Exp-609. I have noticed a lot of big balances and things I have paid off, deleted from my credit file, but my score is falling instead of rising, is that possible. I have not applied for any new credit, no inquiries since August 2008.