In general, the participants were highly reflexive on issues concerning their health. They highlighted their own role and responsibility, combined a variety of treatments, and continuously dealt with questions on risks, even if they had relatively different approaches to if and when to use complementary and alternative medicine. The results also show that motives may change over time. Even if initial choices were closely related to frustration and critique of conventional treatments was long-term use motivated by ideological characteristics of complementary and alternative medicine.