'A cold sore became so unbearably painful I considered assisted suicide'
An award-winning author has told how she considered assisted suicide after a childhood cold sore turned out to stem from a rare condition so painful it felt like her head was stuck in a 'mechanical vice'. Christie Newport was thinking of ending her life in a Switzerland clinic after what started as a cold sore on her bottom lip age seven turned into years of hospital appointments and 'unbearable pain'.


