I seem to recall that trying to reset via email may cause problems and could in fact lock me out.
Are you sure it's that you're remembering? I've not reset my password so I wouldn't know but I k ow there's people who've had accounts locked before after they've changed email address as it sends a link to autolock and account for 7 days (I think) and whoever breached their email got the link.
Stake a bitcoin address first here and ensure you're confident on signing a message with it:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=996318.0I can't say this'll be foolproof but it's probably the best way - unless you have one staked already you can sign just in case you do get locked out.