Banned my own IP address-can't access anything

Stop laughing I feel bad enough. ?? I added Better WP Security to all my sites and it has been working fine. This weekend I was getting hit with many 404 errors and lock outs, so I went down the list and banned them all. Unfortunately one was mine.

I successfully deleted through cpanel the Better WP Login and was able to remove all information pertaining to Better WP from the .htaccess file.

However, now whenever I add ANY security software, it immediately gives me a 403 error and I’m locked out again.

I tried reinstalling Better WP Security and BulletProof, but I got locked out from both. this is all the code I have in my .htaccess file:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

I don’t know what else to do. Better WP was protecting me from about 60 hits a day and I hate that I’m not covered now at all.

Helen