If it helps, I was at altitude once (15,000ft) for a couple of weeks and it felt like a really bad hangover from about 6000ft onwards. Constant headache, constantly felt sick, night and day. As soon as I started to descend after the trip, the pain went away completely and I felt like I had double the stamina I would at sea level and felt great.
The trees spoke to me through the wind. The more I listened, the more they spoke.