(I’m not sure where this question goes, so if I’ve misfiled it I apologize, but I’m a newbie so I’m starting here)
I went to my PCP for a checkup to get a baseline on my blood work when starting keto. During the checkup I got distracted (because she threw in a well woman exam) and forgot to ask her to order a DEXA scan.
When her office called to follow up on to schedule a mammogram (yay) I asked them if the dr. could please order a DEXA scan at the same time because the facility could do both. Her office called back and said that she said because I was not at risk for osteoporosis, that she would not order the DEXA scan. I explained that starting on a new WOE, I would like to use the DEXA scan to get a baseline on my body fat and lean body mass and could she please reconsider. Her office call back a day later and said that the DEXA scan could not be used to measure lean body mass and sent me to a hippie dippy wellness center that wants to sell me essential oils and chakra stones.
The scanning facility will not give me a DEXA scan without a doctors referral.
Any recommendations on how I can get one?