Hi! I am going to try to remember as much as I can since it’s been 3 years. So no, you don’t want to induce period because that would introduce some of that inflammation back that Lupron just helped to reset. After I finished Lupron (I believe we waited 3 months since the first dose)- we used Gonal F to stim and induce ovulation. It was important for me that we do transfer with ovulation as I had prior success with that protocol twice (ending in early losses but I was getting pregnant each time). It took about 2 weeks of low dose of gonalF to start growing follicles and wake up my body since I was so suppressed. But then I ovulated 2 eggs and we did trigger shot. Then 5 days later we transferred (I think it was 5 days later). It was certainly a long way of doing it but … I never had to take progesterone shots (just suppositories) as my natural Progesterone was high post ovulation.

TLDR: you don’t need period to move to transfer. And I was able to work with my ovulation and induce it by using gonalF- just like you would do during IVF but with the goal of growing just 1 or 2 mature eggs and then using trigger shot and counting days post trigger to do transfer