im new too this..i just started cytoxan..im on 60mg of pred..went through alot to get diagnosed..lost the vision in the right eye but they say that my eye is healing.but my vision is black exept in the furthest right corner..the docs thought it was nodular scleritis and found out wrong when the bumped pred up too 100mg and it made it worse..cuz blood test came back neg. for infection..so they hit me with every anti bio,viral,anti fungal i was in hospital for a month..finally they can treat the WG..i dont have too much probs with prednisone..but i dont like being chained down too it."dependency"they said my threshhold is 30mg..that was at the hospital..but my WG specialist i guess he is the best in the western U.S. for treating WG he said he will beable too taper me within a six month period..so i hope its not hot air...lol as for the cytoxan and methotrexate or whatever i am scared about infection..the docs told me not to worry..but i work at walmart on the front end..i start working again tommarrow...my WG is mostly eye and nasel involvment..guess i got lucky...well im probly going to be asking for alot of advice and things.. i was going to see if i could get into voc rehab to find a job thats less strianing on my left eye and to get away from the public to aviod the colds and germs cuz i dont think my vision in the right eye will come back..and i dont really know how long ill be on immuno suppressants