UC San Diego Health Plastic Surgery - La Jolla

I went in about 3 years ago and I had the easiest experience and most helpful and nice staff the Dr was amazing explained everything and I’m very happy with my breast reduction I’m going back wouldn’t trust another office or Dr

Isaac and the ladies in the front are so amazing. Extremely friendly and professional. Definitely recommend this place!

Everyone is very friendly and Doctor A.Suliman can do amazing things !

have had multiple issues with scheduling appointments for current and past surgeries. I have also had multiple issues with my appointment times being changed the day before my appointments. I have even had my appointments changed to a completely different day without ever being asked first. My most recent problem is that I have been planning a surgery with multiple procedures done for over a month. I went to my pre-op appointment today for my surgery next Tuesday. I was surprised when I was told that the plan had changed and I wouldn't be able to have everything done at one time. I was also told that someone should have reached out before hand to let me know this. The communication at this place is absolutely atrocious!! Apparently they can't even cancel an appointment because I told them to cancel the surgery completely and it still has not been cancelled. I have also been waiting since February for my facial feminization surgery consultation. UCSD you have not only lost the surgery that is scheduled for Tuesday but also my facial feminization surgery, all of my physical therapy appointments, my gastroenterologist appointments everything. I will go to a hospital that knows how to communicate with there patients. UCSD has been nothing but a waste of a year of my life! I had my gender reassignment surgery done in February and I am regretting that as well. My surgical incision opened up three weeks after I was discharged. I was in constant pain from that and had to wait three months just to have another surgery so that could be fixed. That didn't get scheduled until I literally called crying because I was so much pain. Also I'm still spraying when I urinate. I have been since February. That's fine though I will take all of my appointments to another hospital that is capable of doing everything they are paid for!! I have also reached out and spoken with the patient experience department twice. Obviously this was no help because otherwise somebody would have reached out to me before my appointment yesterday letting me know that my surgery plan had changed! I'm the person having the surgery, shouldn't I have been notified of this before my appointment? Instead I was lied to. I went into my pre-op appointment yesterday expecting to have a pre-op appointment for everything. You have no clue how stupid it feels to be informed that your all of a sudden just having a breast augmentation done. I couldn't even have my Doctor tell me this whom I have been working with since February. I instead had a nurse practitioner tell me that I had never met before! UCSD also has no clue how hurtful and damaging this experience has been for me. None of you have a clue what it is like being a transgender female waking up everyday for 40 years in a body that is completely wrong and that I hate in every single way. I was looking so forward and I finally had hope in getting just a little closer on the outside to the woman that my heart and soul is on the inside. First with the surgery that was supposed to happen on Tuesday and then with my facial feminization surgery. There are no words to express how detrimental it is finally having some peace because you know things are finally changing but having it all just ripped away from you all at once! None of you will ever understand this unless you are in a transgender persons place. I can complain to any department you have, but compassion, understanding, sensitivity and communication is not something that can be forced. You either have it or you don't. Obviously UCSD doesn't have it because if they did I wouldn't have been crying and heartbroken since I left my appointment yesterday. If you are going to offer gender affirming I beg of you please try and understand what it must be like to be the patient. Try and understand what it must feel like being told one thing by your doctor having your heart set on that and having it ripped from you five days before your surgery. You have the power to fix the issues , do don't pass me off to someone else that can't help

I do not recommend this place for eyelids surgery. I was referred to UCSD after Sharp Rees Stealy’s surgeon who was supposed to my eyelids surgery got removed from the hospital. It was covered by my insurance since my upper eyelids were soggy and I had only 50% vision. The UCSD doctor (his last name initial initial is K) did a really quick 10 min consultation, he showed me some patients before and after pictures and he said it will be easy. He didn’t measure anything. The surgery was like an assembly line. He had 12 surgeries that day and I was the second to last. After the surgery which was done with general anesthesia, my eyes didn’t look any different. I complained that my upper eyelids were still saggy and it didn’t improve anything. He said my left eye lid was difficult to operate!!! He offered a second surgery for free. This time I stayed awake while he was operating my both eyelids. After the surgery, my left eye looks like a triangle, and The upper eyelid skin is wrinkly. I hate the results. I complained to him and he said he would give me free eyelid fillers to Help with the wrinkles. I decided not to let him touch my eyelids anymore and didn’t have the procedures. I do not recommend UCSD for eyelid surgeries.