I have heard such stories but I have never heard any real life issues with them and epis. Me personally I would not get a tattoo over my spine but that just me. My other tattoo goes over my shin a little and that hurts the most so I would not get another one that goes over my spine.
I have a few more. 1 I don't post online because its hard for me to explain it so that people don't get mad. So yeah I don't show that online. I have a incomplete heart on my left ankle (that I should have had finished saturday) that I am gonna get finished soon when I take my next trip to florida. I just need the outline finished and colored in. I am thinking of this type effect:
but looks more like dripping paint.
I also have a black sun on my right ankle. Had it done when I was young and it did not come out right (not done by my current studio) but I don't want it covered. I just wanna get it fixed up.