Swimming in a Public and/or Private pool?

I just asked my onco about this and his advice was to wear a bathing suit!!! Said it was okay

My oncologist said no to pools but the beach was ok. I've asked this question before on another board and got responses ALL over the place so I really think it depends on your doctor. It's been hard to avoid pool with 2 small kids and temperatures in the 90s!!

Well, I decided to swim in a pool in a motel, and possibly (if I remembe right) sat in a hot tub for about 6 minutes. Not cool! Next day on way home, in car, began to get very dehydrated, like my mouth was sticking together, got home, had a temperature. when you hit 100, you go to hospital. I hit 100.(All this happened several weeks to a month after my last chemo, by the way). Nightime, winter, driving to local emerg, thinkin great I got through all that only to end up in my crummy local hospital and die! I can't remember what this condition is called...too much arimidex I guess, and it was almost 5 yrs ago.. so, get into the emerg room & onto IV, which was a huge relief, and they gave me a Tylenol and after 3-4 hours and blood tests etc my temp went down, I felt way better, and went home.

So I never had anything else like this happen in my entire life. so, my personal experience is - stay out of all public pools and especially  hot tubs - no, no, no. Toomany weird germs.