If you’ve been on strong pain medication, that could be part of your problem, combined with a decrease in calories and good nutrition. This will only get worse as you start radiation treatments. When I went through my radiation, I slept away most of my days with no energy, and no appetite. I lost a lot of lean body mass and weight as a result of all this, and after losing more than 10% of my total body weight, was put on a PEG feeding tube. While I didn’t want it, it turned out to be a minor procedure and having it was no big deal. Using it actually gave me some of my energy back and while I was still on pain medication for the mucocitis sores the radiation was causing, I began to slowly add weight.

It will be awhile before they can reline your dentures and you probably won’t tolerate them well during radiation. As the soft tissues begin to heal at the end of radiation, they can initially reline them with a soft liner vs hard acrylic. When the new contours of your tissues stabilize then you can have them hard relined.

I would suggest starting to blend some high calorie smoothes you can drink to get your energy back and not lose weight during all this. Your body is going to be in constant repair mode and it needs the calories and good nutrition to heal the damage being done each day. If you don’t give it that, it will get the proteins it needs for repair by breaking down your muscle mass to get it. That you don’t want. B