I heard that if a girl/woman has a lower back tattoo that if she is pregnant and goes into labor that they can't give her an epidural... Is this true?? I would really like to know!! Thanks!
2006-10-09 06:23:18 · 17 answers · asked by livindead_zombie13 1 in Beauty & Style ➔ Skin & Body ➔ Tattoos
Well someone said it and I was just curious if it was true.. I don't even have a tattoo on my back so, just plain curiosty I guess.
2006-10-09 06:25:55 · update #1
yeah that didn't sound right to me.. well thanks ppl {the decent answering ones}
2006-10-09 06:29:35 · update #2
One reason girls put tattoos on their lower back is to cover up hair. You know, peach fuzz that we all have there.
Another reason is so you have something to look at when their jeans ride down when they squat or bend over.
2006-10-09 06:26:29 · answer #1 · answered by Zoila 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can still get an epidural. The tattoo is only directly under the skin and does not effect an epidural. I asked my tattoo artist this when I got my back tattoo.
2006-10-09 09:15:54 · answer #2 · answered by jesraptora 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a lower back tattoo, I also had the epidural with my last child. Never heard that before.
2006-10-11 12:34:46 · answer #3 · answered by ♥just me♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No this is not true. My wife has a large butterfly tattoo on her lower back and there was no complications with her epidural
2006-10-09 06:26:48 · answer #4 · answered by contienterprise 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
are you kidding.... I can't believe you believe this.
Think about this....if that were true, then someone with a tattoo on his arm could not get an IV then.... How much sense does that make?
Furthermore...what on earth would cause you not being able to take an epidural?... The ink of a tattoo only goes into the skin.... an epidural goes into the spine.
2006-10-09 06:24:42 · answer #5 · answered by USMCstingray 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's not true. If the tattoo is freshly done, which I hope if your pregnant it isn't. Then the doctor might have a little problem putting and epiqdural in, but if you have had the tattoo for a long time then there is no problem.
2006-10-09 06:26:22 · answer #6 · answered by angel2005_2001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i got an epidural but dont have a tattoo on my back and I asked my doctor out of curiousity ..he sayed some doctors wil do it if its not a coloured tattoo but some doctors will not do it at all. In Canada.
2006-10-12 17:10:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm.... I can't see why that would have anything to do with anything. My friends get shots in their arms. They have huge tattoos. But, of course, getting a vacination is different than a epidural.
2006-10-09 06:31:56 · answer #8 · answered by Ha Ha! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can get and epidural even though you have a tattoo on your lower back. dont know who told you that.
2006-10-09 06:26:34 · answer #9 · answered by crazy_mom1979 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hogwash!
2006-10-09 06:24:53 · answer #10 · answered by Ya'at'eeh 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋