I have a mole on my left nipple that started as a what looked like a freckle. When I had my daughter 5 years ago and breast feed her, it became irritated and scabbed over. Once the scab was gone, the mole was there, it had gotten larger and darker. Every couple months, it goes through a cycle where it will get darker and hard, then it will start to scab over. Once it is completely covered in the scab, the scab will start to break apart into numerous little scabs, still in the shape of the mole. Then it gets black around the edges and they will start to fall off. Once the scabs are off, the mole is there again, in a light shade of brown, at which point the cycle starts again. It is often itchy and is painful when it is scabbed. I have tried putting different types of deep moisturizers and antibiotic ointments on it when it is starting to scab, but this does nothing to stop it.