Hi, thank you for providing the brief history of you. As you being suffering with Wegeners, and taken steroids as well, for which now you are again having pain and aches so you want to restart the medication. Well, self medication is never advised as if complications happen one can never be sure off. Also, steroids for longer run will not be a choice of any physician due to the future side effects and the troubles if taken in excess dosage. As you have the joint aches, pain, backache, knee pain, elbow pain, etc i will advice you to undergo physical therapy. As per the pathology of the Wegeners, one needs to make the control of the symptoms with little medication and more of the physical therapy like - exercises. In my clinical practice most patients with Wegeners are misdiagnosed with RA and only on a later stage they come for a conclusion of Wegeners. We recommend them to try physical therapy and majority of them has a good outcome score. Since the pain can be controlled without more of the medication than it should be tried out. Regards Jay Indravadan Patel