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I had my procedure done on March 26. I was looking to reduce the size of my pudge after having two kids. Also didn’t want to go through surgery since I scar really badly. I knew it was not 100% guaranteed if I would see any results. Unfortunately the procedure made no difference at all. Overall Joey was awesome at Larry Fan and yes I would come back . This reviewer received a gift card from RealSelf in exchange for their review.
This review is actually for Joey Chang. She was the patient care coordinator that performed my Coolsculpting procedure. She was really comforting and knowledgeable. It felt like she genuinely cared about the results and never tried to push more work than was needed on me. She was a complete professional. I had my upper and lower abdomen done, and lost 3 lbs permanently. The procedure is uncomfortable and it does hurt for a few weeks after, but it's so worth it. My stomach looks and feels so much better. My upper abdomen is super long, so there is a divot now in my upper ab from where the applicator was. I'll probably need to go back in to fix that at some point, but I don't think that could have been helped. I can't recommend this procedure and this practice enough.
I had a breast augmentation done in 2020 with Dr.Fan, and I have had problems since. He was not attentive, and when I told him I was unhappy with the 3d model of what it would look like I was essentially told it wouldn't look like the model and j would be happy and I felt pressured to go ahead with it. I shouldn't have. Not only did it cost me 16,000+ dollars, but it looks terrible, is painful, and is continually getting infected because there are pieces of stitches causing hernias around my areola where there are literal holes where my skin couldn't heal. I expressed my concerns about infection to Dr Fans office early on and was not responded to even after several attempts to contact. Eventually I got a response asking me to please come in, by this point my areola was separating from my breast tissue. And there was an infection. I was not given anything for the infection and was instead told to keep it clean and keep an eye on it. I continued to complain and every time I would go in and see him he was short, cold, and seemed to be irritated with me. Then several months later after I had "healed" I noticed that my right breast was significantly firmer and causing me pain, I was given a prescription for something and told to follow up in 6 months. When I did, I told him I wanted a refund because I would need to have another surgery to correct it and he offered me 7,000 dollars and I wouldn't have the right to share my experience. So I refused. Now it's been almost 4 years and I have infections in the areola again and there are parts of stitches along with pus coming out of my areola. I would not recommend this dr to anyone. He has ruined my breasts and caused me significant pain and suffering as you can see from the photos below there is pus and parts of stitches coming out of holes in my areola. Four years later .
Hi there, I have had a really positive experience so far, and after being terrified by the intense experiences others have had on here I thought I would post about my positive one (so far) Through exercise and diet I had gotten down to about 118 lbs and had a very muscular stomach that I was very proud of but I didn't like what the weight loss did to my chest. I am now back at my natural weight (125-128) and after about a year of reading about coolsculpting I went in for a consultation. I feel good and know that my stomach and flanks are in good shape but I want that last 5% to got to get into excellent territory. I am a performing artist and need to fit into leotards and such, even a little bit of pooch shows up in the costumes I usually wear. I want the muscular look that I had before without sacrificing my natural breast size. Anyhow thats how I ended up looking into this treatment. I initially went to Artful Aesthetics in Montclair CA and was told I would need 10 cycles at $7000. I pondered this thinking that is a whole lot of money and cycles. I thought about it for a while and went to 77 Plastic Surgery for a second opinion. There they recommended only 3 for $1700. Much more manageable! I had never done any kind of "procedure" before so I was mostly concerned about the nerve pain that so many others experience. The woman who consulted with me and performed the procedure acknowledged that it does happen, she estimates about 15% of patients. She said that she recommended that I have the coolsmooth applicator used on my abs since she hadn't had a single patient experience the nerve pain with it. The procedure itself was easy. Yes, it was cold and uncomfortable for 10 minutes then the most irritating thing was staying still. I watched 30 rock and laughed way too hard, then got nervous that the laughter would dislodge the applicator and so I just read the news. The massage was weird but not horrible. I read tons of reviews and saw many with more negative responses so I felt prepared for the worst and had a really easy experience. As I thawed I actually felt a little sore (like old bruise feeling) no bruising, just a few little tiny hicky like marks. I went straight to work in a great mood. Next two days were unremarkable, the expected numbness and odd jiggly feeling. I hadnt been exercising for about 2 months due to an injury so I did not begin exercise immediately. I did go on a 10 mile hike/jog on day 5 that didn't effect the feeling of the treated areas. Day 3-7 I had minor twinges from time to time, nothing bad, I mostly worried when they happened because I was expecting the feeling to get worse for a while. There was a bit of soreness that would come and go but the ache/twinges never rose above a 1 or a 2 level of pain. Minor itching, not even annoying. I am on day 13 now, looking the same but I know not to expect anything for at least another 2 weeks. Plus I am about a week away from starting my cycle and know that this is not the time to compare the before pictures (when I was ovulating and looking my natural best...) I will update as I start to notice changes, or after 4 months if I don't notice anything. Updated on 17 Apr 2016: I just hit the one month mark and know that this is the earliest possible day I could see any changes. I don't and I'm not too surprised. I do feel ready to see something! Never had any real pain. Still have some numbness in the flanks and the treated areas have a sort of watery bloated feeling. Maybe that's the numbness or the dead fat cells... I don't know. I think I'm still a little swollen, not by much but my skin also feels slightly looser. I need more time to see if it's working. I have a big life event in 6 weeks so hopefully I'll have some visible changes by then! Muscley belly, hurry up and get here! Updated on 7 Jul 2016: I don't see much difference but I think I can feel the difference when I grab my belly and hips in terms of how much I can grab. I haven't done my follow up appointment but they will do the precise photos then and I will get to see from every angle if there have been changes. At this point I think I can tell that something has happened but its been so subtle. A second round might get me into a more visible territory. Updated on 7 Jul 2016: Same day as last post, wearing the sweatpants and undies from my first photos. Updated on 8 Sep 2016: Definitely a difference! I gained a few pounds over the course of the process but I can see a real difference. I feel better about my shape :) Updated on 8 Sep 2016: It works! Updated on 23 Mar 2017: I decided to go in for another cycle on my flanks. I went in for the assessment and it seemed like we had enough pinchable fat to do another round. I was sad to learn that it doesn't come out well if you go below the hip bone which is where a good amount of what I wanted to reduce lies. We started one of the cycles but had for pop off's in a row. We decided to do to lower abdominal instead. Feel like I'm kind of flying fast and loose with these decisions, but so far no regrets. And given that I had already done three cycles I felt pretty confident going forward with a few more. I may try to do thanks again had a future date
