Interesting to read that you have reduced your intake of aspirin, Dr Mercola has published a number of reports on aspirin use, to summarise. "Aspirin May Cause More Harm Than Good" .
Here here is a link to his articles.
http://www.mercola.com/2000/jul/2/aspirin.htm
In the case of my honey she was taking "baby" aspirin most days and began suffering from inflamation of the white of the eye, for which some powerfull medications were prescribed. It was only when we researched some of the side effects of aspirin that we found that this was indeed a common side effect. She stopped taking aspirin and the problem has never come back. My point is that even a "safe" drug such as aspirin has many possible side effects and may in the long run not be as safe as we have been lead to believe.