Table 7.

Side Effects: Evaluative Categories, Subcodes and Exemplary Quotations

Expected side effects at study start	Yes	“In the beginning, I was very afraid of the side effect of fungal infections in the mouth and throat” P5 (male, 54 years)
	No	“I didn’t think too much about it [side effects], the main thing was that the skin is good” P2 (female, 58 years)
Experienced side effects	Yes	“Of course, after the first injection I was really very tired, had to sleep and had a headache as well as nausea” P1 (female, 30 years)
	No	“Hair loss or something like that are the typical, I’d say, side effects that you know, but so far that has not happened and I hope it stays that way” P3 (male, 35 years)
Expected side effects over the course of treatment	Yes	“Yes, indeed, the fear [of side effects] has remained, because […] also with the last therapy the pain did not start directly with the medication, but came sometime later” P7 (female, 54 years)
	No	“I worried less and less about side effects, […] because nothing happened” P14 (male, 32 years)