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I assume your readings are from the HTH 6-Way kit. With chlorine over 5ppm, that kit cannot give you an accurate pH reading. Take 1/4 cup of pool water and mix it with 1/4 cup of distilled water. Then, run the pH test and report the reading.
Don't use any more products in your pool at this point other than bleach. In most cases, and your pool is a prime example, all the stuff the pool store wants to sell you just makes the problem worse.
You are going to need to run higher chlorine than 5ppm because of that CYA reading of 90. Take a look at this chart that shows the connection between CYA and chlorine. http://pool9.net/cl-cya/
Therefore, you are going to need a kit that can measure those higher chlorine readings. If I am right that you have the HTH 6-Way kit, then you can buy the Taylor K1515 add on kit that will give the test that can do that. Having that test in conjunction with the 6-Way kit in essence gives you the Taylor K2006 kit that we typically recommend. You can find the K1515 through this link: http://pool9.net/tk/
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Also, ignore the bromine reading. You have a chlorine pool.
Because of all of the concoctions that you unfortunately have put in your water, I'm going to ask Ben to chime in here on this thread and give his opinion as well. Don't do anything else at this point until Ben gives you his thoughts.
EDIT --- Any idea how big your filter is (how many lbs. of sand) and also how big is your pump (what hp)?
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