I wasn’t able to recover my primary. I guess that’s another learning experience for me.
It sure is one of these learning things. Reg recover is easy when you're expecting it, but when it happens out of the blue, yoru mind can go blank.
If in trim just go head downwards a bit and sure enough your reg will be flapping about near your face'
If you're a club member and they have pool access during the winter, get an instructor to teach you demonstration standard reg remove and replace. This is for NO other reason, than it's a bit of a long winded skill and you're supposed to be neutral. For this reason you're without a reg for a fair bit of time.
You'll soon grow in confidence, realising that you can be without a reg for a decent amount of time, without panicking, and because you're concentrating on the skill you're increasing your mental bandwidth - so in real life if something like this happens again, you'll be able to multi task easier (solving the problem and finding your reg)