On Monday I spent the day giving my kitchen a much needed cleaning. The floor hadn't been mopped in too long to be honest. I woke up yesterday morning feeling a bit strange. There was a horrible taste in my mouth, almost metallic, and my sinuses were stuffy. After a while I was wondering if I'd used too much bleach in washing the kitchen floor and if it was affecting me. But I had every window in the flat open when I was cleaning so the place was well ventilated. There was quite a breeze outside so plenty air had a chance to circulate. Later on I started feeling little twinges and aches consistent with inflammation. So I suspect that it's the nuts in the couscous I'm reacting to. The cashews and almonds are raw. The cashews in the stir fry the last two weeks were roasted. I remember one time a guy told me he didn't eat cashews because he got stomach cramps from them when they were raw. So I suspect the inflammation symptoms I'm feeling are from the nuts. They're certainly not allowed in the elimination phase of the autoimmune protocol diet so perhaps they trigger inflammation in me as well. I got enough nuts for two batches of the couscous recipe because I had planned to make it next Sunday as well. I still will make it and see how I feel then after the next cycle to see if it's the nuts. It could also be the spices. Not the turmeric but the cinnamon. The other thing about it is that I feel like I've eaten a meal afterwards but I get hungry (not food craving but feeling of an empty stomach hungry) about an hour before I normally have supper. But my blood sugars stay in range, at the lower end but still in range, until I have supper so I won't lower my dinner insulin. If I could get over the inflammation symptoms that dinner would be great for my blood sugar averages.
My tennis elbow has been acting up and I'm kind of feeling it on the other elbow as well. I have to put sudocreme on hives on my legs and my muscles ache from time to time, along with the occasional stomach cramp. It feels like my whole body is inflamed this week. But it's not as bad as it sounds overall. It's just a number of little things niggling at me but they're not stopping me from moving around and getting things done. It'd be nice if I could pinpoint a solution though. I'll struggle on.
Another thing I wanted to speak about briefly is that Becky Excell shared a link to a gluten free pizza base recipe from her Gluten Free Cuppa Tea blog on twitter. I'm seriously considering trying it. If I do I'll probably say how it went on here. Speaking of recipes, I tend to do recipes from others or an adapted version of existing recipes because I don't have the extensive knowledge in that area or the patience to develop my own unique recipes. I tend to do things at a slow relaxed pace so if I'm trying something new, what would take some people a couple of hours would take me most of the day to get right so I feel like time isn't on my side if I wanted to experiment with cooking and developing a recipe.
Note: If you're wondering what I mean by 'cycle', it's how I plan and prepare meals for the week, especially to do me from Sunday to Wednesday. There is a fairly detailed look at it here: https://myautoimmuneblog.blogspot.com/2020/02/meal-planning-and-preparation-fairly.html
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