I got it pretty badly in February on my leg. Either through a cut or a bite sustained whilst riding around Dalby ( I’m pretty clumsy). Upshot was I spent a fortnight in hospital on increasing doses of IV antibiotics until they found the right antibiotic which stopped it spreading and finally started to fight it. I ended up losing all the skin from my leg between the knee and the ankle so it was all one big wound and took a while to heal and needed redressing everyday.
All fine now in terms of functionality but the leg remains a little swollen compared to the other and is permanatly scarred. It looks like a big burn scar from the knee down.
I’d never been ill before that apart from the odd cold so was a pretty scary experience. The problem is once you have it there is a 25% chance of getting it again within 12 months. I got stung by a spider on the scarred area 2 weeks ago and sure enough it flared up within14 hours and was starting to get bad but thankfully I just went straight to the hospital in Hull and was able to get the right anti bio’s straight away and it subsided within 72 hours.
I was lucky though, never had any muscle pain. Mine was just the skin. Hurt like a bastard for the first 5 days though.