A DAD died after taking a weight loss jab for just a few weeks. Tim Ramsay, from South Australia, wanted to shed some pounds so he could confidently walk his daughter down the aisle. The 58-year-old was a truck driver, which made staying fit and eating healthy challenging.
He was told by his GP the weight-loss medicine would be good for "all aspects of [his] life and protect all [his] organs," Tim's daughter Elyse, 29, told 60 Minutes Australia . Tragically, he died just 19 days after he started taking the weight-loss jab, Saxenda . Just hours before he collapsed at home on November 27, 2022, Tim was discharged from the hospital complaining of severe stomach pains .
Read more on weight loss jabs Stomach pains are a well-known side effect of Saxenda - the sister drug of the wildly popular Ozempic , an injection used to treat type 2 diabetes and Wegovy, which is used for weight loss. Before this, Elyse had received a distressed call from her father in the middle of the night begging her to come and pick him up from a truck depot and take him to get seen by a doctor. After rushing him to hospital medics failed to find the source of his stomach pains, so decided to send him home.
Rita, Tim's wife, told the doctors treating her husband that he was on several medications at the time, but was reassured the drug combination would have been fine. Most read in Health That night, Tim was found on the floor in his bathroom and home. Rita performed CPR on her husband for 40 minutes, but t.