I may or may not have just had this (LA County). My PCR test came back negative, but I've read those are only 60-70% accurate and I had mostly gastrointestinal symtoms for 8 days (feeling pretty much back to normal now).
- Complete loss of appetite for days. Nausea as well. I lost over 5lbs over a 5-6 day span. Regained maybe 1-2lbs of that after I started forcing it down.
- Diarrhea earlier on.
- Occasional temperatures spikes: highest I recorded was 99.6F orally. Lowest was 95.9F and I actually felt sickest when it was lowest.
- Difficulty staying warm. I was comfortable in sweats and a sweater in a 80F apartment. Normally 70-72F has me wearing shorts.
- Crazy night sweats and chills that really hurt my sleep.
- General buzzed feeling as if I was running a high fever but without the fever. I woke up once convinced I was running a fever only to measure 96.1F.
- Feeling like I was going to lose my mind or have a panic attack - the symtoms were odd and would come and go, really questioning my sanity over all of it.
- Occasionally my tongue felt cold or slightly numb as if it had some novocaine injected into it.
- Burning / irritarion in my chest, right side, similar to the feeling I had at the end of recovering from viral bronchitis. It's not something that causes a cough.
- I also had brief periods where I felt completely fine.
7 days prior to symtom onset we checked out a vacant home on the market. That was the only place we were indoors (and masked). We also ordered Veggie Grill afterward, so something could have came in through the food. I cannot think of anything else since that could have exposed us to anything.
Symtoms went on of varying intensity for about 7-8 days. The worst were days 3-5. The test was taken on the morning of day 4. Result received 24 hours later. My wife and son both remained fine. Now that I feel "normal" again, I know a majority of my symtoms were real. I've had Norovirus before, food poisoning, etc. But never had any of those draw out for so long.
So yeah, maybe or not. Because my symptoms seem to align with the "gastrointestinal version" of COVID - a poop sample may have been better but that wasn't offered. There's not much point to an antibody test follow up later because those are not accurate either.
All I can do is assume that it was not COVID and continue to be safe.