Let me give you the same advice you bestowed on me, I think you should start covering now, buy one or two shares if that's all you can afford; but the sooner you start, the better you'll feel.
It's just like going to AA, the first step is the hardest. You have to admit to yourself that you made a mistake, then you need to address how to correct the wrong you have done, in your case; you have to buy back a lot of counterfeit shares and hope you don't end up with Bubba