Doctors Pulls Out Huge WHAT from Man's Ear?!

Hendrick Helmer woke up in the wee hours of the morning feeling an acute pain in his right ear. When he went to the Royal Darwin Hospital, the results shocked him.

A 2-cm cockroach managed to creep into his right ear while he was asleep. He already speculated that it might have been a crawler that managed to get into his ear but he wasn't sure which insect it was.

Before heading to the hospital, he tried to pull the unidentified crawler out using a vacuum cleaner and intended to flush it down the toilet. He eventually gave up and decided to head to the emergency room of the hospital.

In an interview with local radio station 105.7 ABC Darwin, Helmer says, "I was hoping it was not a poisonous spider," and continues, "I was hoping it didn't bite me."

It was around 2 in the morning when he felt the pain. While there were lapses of relief, it became excruciating for the Australian man "Later on, when I stood up and it happened it would sort of hunch me over and drop me down to the ground," Mr Helmer recalls.

When everything else became unbearable, he asked his flatmate to take him to the hospital where he waited for 10 more grueling minutes for the cockroach to die before being pulled out by the doctor.

"Near the 10-minute mark... somewhere about there, he started to stop burrowing but he was still in the throes of death-twitching," Helmer says. His doctors say that it was the largest cockroach they've pulled out from someone's ear.

While the incident may be the makings of a nightmare, Helmer's case isn't unique. Dr. Ian Storper, director of otology at the New York Head & Neck Institute recalls a 70-year old man discovering that he had mites and mite eggs inside his ear. Another incident was that of a Chinese man who went to the hospital complaining about pain in his ears, only to find out that a spider has been living in there for five years.

Doctors say that Helmer will not be suffering from any complications from his creeping nightmare but he says he will not sleep differently anytime soon. His friends, however, have begun to put earplugs.