A Colorado man coughed up a nail that doctors say may have been stuck in his nose for 30 years.

Prax Sanchez went to the doctor complaining of pain under his right eye. The doctor ordered an MRI, whose magnetisms seems to have dislodged the inch-long nail from Sanchez's sinuses, local TV station KKTV reported. On his way home, he coughed the nail up, much to his surprise.

"I never had any idea there was any metal in my face," Sanchez told KKTV.

He'd had a dizzy spell about a year ago, and has a x-ray taken of his head. At the time, doctors somehow missed the inch-long nail that appeared clearly in his films, Colorado's KOAA TV station reported.

Doctors say that now that the nail is gone, Sanchez shouldn't experience any more symptoms. And how could a nail have stayed in his nose for 30 some years?

"Once it's in the nasal cavity like that, a little membrane forms around it and it becomes a foreign object," Dr. Jamieson Kennedy, a family practitioner at the west side family health center in Old Colorado City, told KKTV.