Treatment Provider

Jeffrey Umansky, MD
Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
Call Doctor
Call Doctor
Reviews you can trust, from real people like you.      
How it works
  • Our highly-trained Review Moderation team evaluates all reviews before they're published to ensure they're written by people like you and not a member of a doctor's office.
  • This multi-step process takes up to 24 hours from review submission to publication.
  • Doctors can't pay to have reviews removed or hidden.
  • Reviews are only removed at the reviewer's request or if they violate our Terms of Service.

If you have questions or believe we should re-evaluate a published review, let us know.

Sort by:
*Treatment results may vary

9 1/2 weeks post op

I am feeling pretty good and have all my energy back from the surgery. I have been working on several different detox methods to try and improve things overall and I believe I am having some success! I did an electro lymphatic therapy along with a colonic and A footbath last week and I think that made a difference! I will likely do one more in another week. I don't have any aches from the surgery anymore although it's funny I still get a little bit of surgery pains here and there from where my stitches were. I guess that's proof its still healing! We are leaving on our big trip to Europe next week and I'm happy to know I am at this point. I have been either walking to miles a day or riding my bike for 10+ miles and recently have started to do a run/walk! I hope you all are out there having good results. If there is anything I have learned that it's definitely not immediate it takes some time day by day we will get there! Xoxo

Jeffrey Umansky, MD
Jeffrey Umansky, MD
30 Mar 2018

Thank you for sharing your experience! I am glad to hear that I was able to help you on your journey and I hope that you are still enjoying your results. Best wishes!


4 weeks and 2 days post op

I think swelling has come down in both my breasts and my abdomen from the lipo! Excited about my abdomen looking more flat, finally! I don't know if there will be more decreases in the swelling but I m happy where I am at now. scars fading is up next! I go for my 1 month follow up Monday and my doc is going to give me some scar treatment stuff so excited to start that and hoping it keeps my keloiding tendencies at bay! I am still riding a roller coaster of balancing my energy with overdoing it and still having reserves! I've been back at walking daily (did 2 miles today on the coast overlooking the beach-love!!) and did a 6 mile bike ride earlier this week so slowly getting back into it. Trying to take it easy is hard! Do you think I could swim if I wanted to now? Is the motion of rotating my arms okay above my head? I will ask doc that tomorrow too but wanted to know if you any did that after this procedure and how soon? On another long winded note, I went to a naturopath this week to help me heal and he muscle tested my supplements and told me which ones to leave behind and sold me some new ones. It's hard not to feel like it's all a hoax... His vitamin B made me feel awful (bad headache and lethargy), I'm going back on mine which is pure encapsulations methylated B, I still think it's better than his because it doesn't make me feel awful! He also told me not to take my fish oil (again pure encapsulations) but instead skate oil (gel fishy capsules) and not my vitamin D which was a liquid capsule and take his which is in a capsule that is powder.so confusing to know what is truly better for me. Never heard of his brands and I know of pure encapsulations and think it's superior...told me to stop all dairy, and sugar, and starches to heal. I'm sure that is good advice but not easy to do. Tough stuff! I'm just going to focus on veggies, fruits and complex carbs and of course no alcohol and no to little sugar. We will see how it goes. I've already been doing that for the most part but need to be a bit stricter with myself. Yikes! Haha! Hope you all are doing well with your healing. I love reading your updates. Xoxo!

Question on burning

Hi Gals, I just want to ask you if any of you are having or did have burning pain around your nipples as you healed? I'm 3 weeks and 5 days out and it seems more pronounced now. Ugg! Granted I've been doing a lot more including side sleeping etc...Any suggestions on what I can put on them to make it go away? Or when did yours stop? This sensation I think is newer for me or I hadn't noticed it before now (maybe because everything else was sore I couldn't feel that too?) . I never had burning sensation before surgery.

Provider Review

Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
4150 Regents Park Row , La Jolla, California
Call Doctor
Call Doctor
Overall rating
Doctor's bedside manner
Answered my questions
After care follow-up
Time spent with me
Phone or email responsiveness
Staff professionalism & courtesy
Payment process
Wait times

I'm only six hours postop but I am extremely happy with Dr. Jeffrey Umansky, he was very sweet and caring and definitely listen to my concerns and acted on them. I really appreciate the fact that he was willing to do the en bloc capsulectomy. his nurse in the operating room is very caring and so was his anesthesiologist. The warming blanket made me nice and warm. His anesthesiologist nummed up my hand area first with the smallest needle, i barely felt it! no bruise from it today either- which hasn't been my experience with past IV's. Then he put in the IV which I didn't feel at all! He told me my throat may be sore from the breathing tube, but it's not at all, the guy has skills :-)! They asked me what music I wanted in the surgical suite and I told them Bob Marley and they played it for me as I drifted off, thinking of the islands. All of these small things added up and I felt I was in good hands and was able to relax because of it! In the end, I think he was a great choice for my explant. I'm now adding on to my review since I've had my post op appt. Again, I highly recommend Dr. Jeffrey Umansky. He really listened to what my concerns were and agreed to remove my implants en bloc with drains. He also gave me back my implants per my request. He understood that I was concerned about my health from the implants and wanted to remove them for me to make sure none of them or the capsule were left behind and I can't tell you how much I appreciated that! The only thing that I'm a bit disappointed about is he didn't send my capsules to pathology. His reasoning is because they looked fine and he said he doesn't usually send capsules. I wouldve liked that to happen no matter what, but not much I can about it now. If you are going to have to go into surgery, this is the kind of doc and team you want there with you!

Jeffrey Umansky, MD
Jeffrey Umansky, MD
30 Mar 2018

Thank you for sharing your experience! I am glad to hear that I was able to help you on your journey and I hope that you are still enjoying your results. Best wishes!