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Quick throbbing or pulsating horizontal pain across my back?
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By quick, I am: assuming you mean brief. Anything that is pulsating would seem to be associated with a blood vessel/heart beating. Hard to know what would be causing pain, but a major blood vessel in the mid-back is the aorta. A problem, bulge/aneurysm, with this vessel would be the most serious cause of your symptoms and deserves urgent evaluation. I would go to ER; this can be excluded easily with imaging.
Answered 6/23/2017
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