puddlesmum, I'm so glad you are feeling better and more positive but just wait until you start the gel, you will feel a million times better! How sensible of Professor Studd to give you a good long spell of Oestrogel only.
I can just imagine Professor Studd saying that Prempak C is useless and that your doctor had prescribed a medication that was no good for you. He is dead right of course and despite the new NICE guidelines, this is happening time and time again and women are getting fobbed off with ADs, cheapo forms of HRT that don't work or alternatively, being given so much progesterone it either makes them feel terrible or stops their regime from working properly. I can't say this often enough - it is absolutely vital to get onto the right type of HRT at the right dose and right oestrogen/progesterone ratio.
Please keep us posted on your progress.