diff --git a/contributors/emails/dasilva.daniel6@gmail.com b/contributors/emails/dasilva.daniel6@gmail.com
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9ee44b73e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contributors/emails/dasilva.daniel6@gmail.com
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Dannou
diff --git a/contributors/emails/peace@trippyogi.com b/contributors/emails/peace@trippyogi.com
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..53ff409dd6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contributors/emails/peace@trippyogi.com
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+trippyogi
diff --git a/hermes_state.py b/hermes_state.py
index 22e2d05267..4f7b645346 100644
--- a/hermes_state.py
+++ b/hermes_state.py
@@ -2471,12 +2471,12 @@ class SessionDB(SessionSearchMixin, SessionSchemaMixin, SessionPortabilityMixin)
                         "a large WAL checkpoint, or an older pre-update "
                         "process; the database itself is healthy)"
                     ) from exc
-                if _is_no_more_rows(exc) and _sleep_before_retry():
+                if _is_no_more_rows(exc) and self._sleep_before_write_retry(deadline, patience_s):
                     continue
                 # Non-lock error or patience exhausted — propagate.
                 raise
             except sqlite3.DatabaseError as exc:
-                if _is_no_more_rows(exc) and _sleep_before_retry():
+                if _is_no_more_rows(exc) and self._sleep_before_write_retry(deadline, patience_s):
                     continue
                 # Corrupt FTS shadow tables make every write raise the
                 # malformed/corrupt error class through the FTS sync triggers
@@ -2496,7 +2496,7 @@ class SessionDB(SessionSearchMixin, SessionSchemaMixin, SessionPortabilityMixin)
                 # subclass) or another sqlite3.Error class outside the two
                 # handlers above. Message-scoped: anything else propagates
                 # untouched.
-                if _is_no_more_rows(exc) and _sleep_before_retry():
+                if _is_no_more_rows(exc) and self._sleep_before_write_retry(deadline, patience_s):
                     continue
                 raise