A Florida man experienced every pork lover’s nightmare when he gobbled an under-cooked piece of a hog — that left him with a brain-eating tapeworm squirming around his eyeball.

“I see a little black dot and it’s only on the left eye. I see something moving from left to right. When the sun comes out it bothers me a lot,” Sam Cordero told ABC Action News this week of the pesky parasite.

Taenia solium, also called the pork tapeworm, is an intestinal infection that comes after the ingestion of contaminated pork.

In Cordero’s case, the parasite made its way through his intestines, into his bloodstream and into his eye where it continued to grow behind Cordero’s lens.

Dr. Don Perez of the Perez Eye Center – who surgically removed the tapeworm from Cordero’s eye this week — told the news outlet: “What is scary, it gravitates toward the brain.”

“If he was in the brain he would present seizures,” said Perez, noting that the tapeworm eats tiny holes through the brain.

Cordero said that he didn’t know the tapeworm existed inside of him until it made its way to his eye.

“I believe and suspect it came from under-cooked pork we ordered around Christmas holidays and that’s how I believe I got it,” said Cordero, who was fearful about the worm entering his brain and ultimately dying there.

Perez explained that it’s important to remove the parasite before it dies because if it died in Cordero’s eye, he could have gone blind.

Ultimately, the procedure was a success and the worm removed from Cordero’s eye was fertilized and about 3 millimeters long.

It’s not the first time Perez performed the cringe-worthy procedure. In 2012, he successfully removed a parasite from another patient’s eye.

According to the doctor, there have only been 20 worldwide cases since researchers began tracking the worm.

As for Cordero, he says he will never eat pork again.

“That’s one of the changes I’m going to make in my life,” he said.