Thanks for all the advice everyone. Didn’t manage to see the GP on Friday and was then away for a couple of nights.
Went to the out of hours clinic at the hospital today. The nurse practitioner and doctor there seemed to know almost nothing about Lyme disease – my reading the information I’d found and had been provided here meant that I was well prepared.
The nurse who I saw was convinced the symptoms were just due to a more generalised infection despite them matching Lyme disease – headache, sore muscles in the leg that was bitten, joint pain especially in that leg but also both hips, neck and shoulders, fatigue, trouble sleeping, night sweats etc.
Took bloods for testing and been prescribed 2 weeks worth of Doxycyline so hopefully if it is Lyme that will knock it on the head given it’s still early. If I hadn’t been so well read on it I suspect I’d have been sent home with a suggestion to see my GP if it didn’t clear up.