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Ammon News - It took a few months, but a Florida man finally found out what was bugging him.

Jacksonville doctors removed 150 live bugs in the larva stage from the nose and sinuses of a cancer survivor earlier this month, First Coast News reports.

The unidentified man had been feeling “off” since October, but it wasn’t until his face and lips swelled on Feb. 9 that he sought help at HCA Florida Memorial Hospital.

“I started getting nose bleeds, constant nose bleeds,” the man told First Coast News.

“I couldn’t even get up to go to the bathroom without my nose starting to bleed.”

Things got really weird at the hospital.

“When I went for the examination the doctor says, ‘I see movement,'” the man recalled.

Dr. David Carlson told the outlet that he examined the man’s nose with a camera — only to discover dozens of bugs feeding on the inside of the nose and sinus cavity and shedding tissue and excrement, which is what spurred the man’s inflammation.

“Size-wise, there’s variations, but the larger ones were as big as the end of my pinky,” Carlson said about the disgusting pests.

“There were certain larvae inside the nose that were scurrying around and looking for places to feed and others that had burrowed into tissue.”

Carlson said his team tried to remove the bugs with a suction, but when that got clogged, they used different instruments to pluck them out. And those little buggers didn’t want to get evicted, Carlson noted.

First Coast News shared graphic footage from the operating room that shows the gruesome bugs crawling inside the man’s face and their stomach-churning extraction.

“They were right up against his skull base, right under the brain, had they gone through that it could have killed him,” Carlson explained.

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