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My 60 year old mum has had a bad bruise on her calf for about a week now. It's on her inner calf so in line with her ankle bone not on the back. It spans nearly the length of her calf and has what feels like a small bump in the middle. Initially she thought she'd bumped it but now she's saying she doesn't know where it came from and is panicking it's a blood clot.

I've been on NHS website and it doesn't look like DVT or a clot, for one thing it isn't red or hot to touch and other than the expected tenderness of the bruise it isn't painful. But she's worried.

I tried getting her a Gp appointment but there are none left today. I've told her to go to the surgery first thing in the morning to get the first appointment which she is going to do but I'm worried now that it could be something sinister. Any medical people....does this sound in keeping with a blood clot/DVT? It is a particularly bad bruise considering she doesn't know how it happened.

I would ring 111 - that's what they are there for. But be prepared for a long wait on the phone and an even longer wait for a doctor to get back to you if that is necessary. I would also take a photo of the bruise, you may need to send it through so they can see it.

Thanks I had thought of 111 but by the time we get to speak to a doctor it's probably not going to make much difference between that and waiting until tomorrow morning. She's had the bruise for over a week and hasn't seem fussed about it until now. I don't know if she's been scaring herself looking at things on Google etc.