How do i retrieve my text messages from an icloud backup?

I updated my phone to ios 6.1.3 6 days ago and last night i noticed when i looked at my phone all my text messages were erased. I had messages going back 3 years ago and ive lost it all. I noticed my Phone had updated to the Icloud in the morning and in the evening everything disappeared so im hoping i can still get it all back if i can restore from my Icloud. When i go to restore on Itunes it wants to restore from my computer which was 6 days ago. HOw do i switch it over to resotre from my Icloud backup?
Thanks

You cannot retrive individual peices of data from an icloud backup. You will have to go to settings>general>reset>erase all content and settings. Then during the setup assistant, you will have to Restore the device from the Icloud backup.

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