| Epidurals
The lower back is a very popular spot for a woman to place a tattoo.
I have answered the same question about it lately: "Is it true
that if I get a tattoo on my lower back that I cannot get an epidural?"
No, not true. You can get an epidural even if you have a lower back
tattoo.
I think that most people who ask me this, believe
that an epidural will deposit a piece of skin, with ink in it, in
the spine and cause paralysis.
You need to understand how a needle works. When
you get an injection with any needle - a piercing, an injection
from a syringe, a blood test, or an epidural - it does not cut a
divot or chunk of skin out and deposit that skin inside of you.
Any needle, any injection, only cuts a slot. No skin chunks are
carried inside of you. Therefore it is irrelevant whether or not
there is a tattoo there.
I did some research on the internet and found a
website called MayoClinic.com. On that site I found the question,
“will a lower back tattoo prevent me from getting an epidural?”,
and the answer was 'no'. They wrote that an anaesthesiologist would
maybe not want to put a scar through a tattoo, but there was no
mention of paralysis at all.
Pay no mind to ignorant people who try to scare
you off getting the tattoo you want, where you want it. |