Edgley says doctors told him his creatine kinase reached 19,000 after an Italy swim

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""They said, Ross, yours is at 19,000, which is so weird for a sport where you are suspended in water. It's not even weightbearing. You shouldn't have this amount of muscle breakdown.""

Ross Edgley says that after a charity swim in Italy he developed heat stroke and rhabdomyolysis (muscle breakdown). He explains that creatine kinase (CK) is used as an indicator of muscle damage and says doctors told him his CK was 19,000—levels he describes as unusually high for a non-weightbearing sport—before he was discharged a few days later.