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After Decades of Mystery Pain, UTHealth Houston Physician Delivers a Diagnosis

Tabatha Spacek, 37, initially brushed off her labor-like abdominal pain as the result of smoking and drinking. But after her grandmother died in 2024 with a rare genetic condition called porphyria, she began to question whether something more serious was behind her own symptoms.

May 11, 2026


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