Living with a tapeworm in your body doesn’t sound like very fun experience now does it?

Losing your appetite, tons of body mass and even falling asleep during practice isn’t normal whatsoever, so when Carson Meyer started experiencing these types of symptoms during his 2017-18 season with the Miami Ohio RedHawks, he knew something wasn’t right with his body.

Multiple tests were concluded, but no answers were discovered on the issue at hand His teammates thought he had cancer, while his school asked him to see a psychiatist to see if was developing depression. There was some that believed that perhaps he had mono, but the tests continued to show nothing.

As the months went past, his personality started to change for the worse. Normally a high-energetic kid, Meyer became quiet and got down on himself. But one day in February when he was going to the bathroom, Meyer started to discover what exactly was wrong with him

In an interview with Aaron Portzline in The Athletic, Meyer explained that a 25-inch orange tapeworm came equipped with a head, neck and roughly 50 segment fell right into the toilet out of him.

“I Face-timed my mom and was like, ‘What the hell is this thing?’ ” Meyer said to Portzline.

“I was freaking out. Absolutely freaking out.”

“I was trying to be calm,” Holly Meyer told The Athletic. “He showed me everything and I remember saying, you have to get that to the trainer and figure out what it is so they can get you fixed.

“And I did say at that moment, ‘This is why everything has been the way it’s been, Carson. This was it.’ It was scary, but it was a relief.”

The term used to describe the parasite is called diphyllobothrium latum. It can be caused from eating raw or undercooked fish, pork or beef on a regular basis.

Meyer saw his production fall off from 10 goals and 26 points during his freshman season to only 5 goals and 9 points in 34 games with a minus-22 rating last season because of the fatigue suffered from the tapeworm inside of his body.

He’s actually going to transfer from Miami to play at Ohio State, but may need to sit out a full year because of NCAA regulations, unless he can prove that Miami didn’t properly diagnose him with the parasite.

He's already starting to feel better and has since gained back some of the weight he's lost, and has since started to prepare for the Blue Jackets devlopment camp this June. If he’s unable to play next season in the NCAA, then he could be in tough to land an entry-level contract with the Blue Jackets considering what happened in the last year.

We wish Carson all the best in his recovery.

(h/t Aaron Portzline of The Athletic)