DaveFoster
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You probably didn't suffer pain from the aspirin contacting the mucosa; it was more likely because of the COX-1 inhibition and reduced mucosal cell turnover. In other words, your gut needed the COX-1 to protect itself, and aspirin inhibited that. K2 deficiency could have played into that as well.I did use baking soda when I added aspirin to the orange juice and made it a little alkaline even, but still my stomach hurt a lot and wasn't adapting over several weeks. It sounds viable that it may have damaged my stomach mucosa and that explains the delay in pain coming and going away. So are aspirin crystals floating around in the solution something everyone has dealt with without stomach issues? If the inside of the crystals that aren't dissolved are still acidic, then they may still sit there and cause irritation. For orange juice I added maybe 1/2 tsp of aspirin per 2 quarts carton, but I drank a portion of the crystals on the first sip because they weren't dissolved. Is this basically the issue, drinking them like this in one sip? I also don't know how many grams are in a tsp, or what speed it's safe to increase the dosage.