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A 16-year-old member asked:

My left nipple is sometimes inverted for seemingly no reason at all. it's normal a lot of the time and when i'm cold but sometimes it does that. why?

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Dr. Yelena Kipervas
Dr. Yelena Kipervasanswered
Family Medicine 25 years experience
Explanation: Most likely this caused by spasm of small muscle what we have around the nipples. And remember that our body asymmetrical that why it happens with one of them.
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