Try thinking about elevator in a different way, it controls your attitude, which in turn controls your speed, at least in a lighty.
One step further: the function of the elevator is simply to alter the angle of attack of the wing. This is the only sensible way to regard the elevator.
If in doubt and you're ever thinking "What's happening here? I don't like this" relax back pressure on the stick and decrease AoA
before touching any other control and particularly ailerons.
I keep saying it (but there might be people reading this who didn't see the other thread):
Stick and Rudder by Langewiesche
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0...lance&n=266239
In my opinion, no student should go solo without having read parts of this book and been grilled on it thoroughly with their instructor. To think that this was written in 1944 and yet is so relevant today is amazing. It is an indictment of modern flight training that Langewiesche's over-riding emphasis on AoA has not carried through into the cockpit today. Many pilots have only the sketchiest understanding of the relation between AoA and stall speed and the effect of elevator on AoA and that is unsurprising when you look at the written PPL exams.
A deep understanding of AoA and the elevator will help you to rebel against the extraordinarily strong 'common sense' reflexes which can so very easily mislead you into a stall/spin accident. If you always think AoA, then any crash you have is more likely to be with the wings level than with one wing down and the prop drilling into the ground. As Langewiesche said more than 60 years ago, the former type of crash is almost always survivable, the latter type almost always isn't.
QDM