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I've noticed my areolas getting darker over the last couple of weeks. could this be due to hormonal influxes of some kind of something else?
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Breast, areola dark: That can happen in response to hormones, such as birth control pills, in pregnancy, or sometimes just naturally as a woman ages.
Answered 3/16/2018
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