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I had the "pleasure" of spending some time in La Paz Bolivia many years ago. It sucked. Sleeplesness, headaches, loss of appetite, general malaise, etc. etc. ad nauseum. Fortunately, you're not that high. Rest, hydrate, and take asprin as required. Acclimation takes time. (You'll never be as good as the natives though. I swear the Bolivian "Indios" were mostly lung.) You CANNOT accelerate it by doing "gut check" PT. At higher altitudes you can wind up hospitalized or dead with HAPE or HACE. Once you've acclimated you can resume normal activities. When you get home, you'll be a real "stud muffin" for a few weeks. (Natural "blood doping".) That wears off after a while as RBC counts return to normal levels. HTH - Peregrino
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