I've broken iMessages :/

I will try my best to be brief...
I log in and out of iMessages on the Macbook daily. everything was working fine, and each day I logged in it synched up with iPhone, until one day it didn't.
So I switched off iMessage on the iPhone to try and rest it, and in meantime tested sending messages from Macbook. When I reinitiated iMessage on iPhone it didn't synch the already sent messages. And has never synched properly since.
Only started a few weeks ago, around the time I went to 8.3beta, I think...but I can't be sure it was due to that.
So I have messages on my iPhone, and messages on my Macbook, and I want/need them to all merge and synch and have the same messages on both.
Please help
I have 3 addresses for iMessages, Phone number, Apple ID email and iCloud email. All three are ticked to S/R on both devices, and both say to send new message from phone number
Text Message Forwarding and Hand Off is disabled on iPhone as is Send As SMS

Hi,
The answer is not that short either.
Each device you register with iMessages has a specific login to that server.
The process on the Mac involves the Mac's own Serial Number and the Apple ID password that create an Auth token kept in the Keychain.
I have seen instances where in the iPhone > Settings > Messages the iPhone Number as become Unticked (Inactive) despite it being greyed out and not alterable by the user.
Many people are reporting issues with Macs logging in and syncing like they should.
The outcome of this device specific stuff is that the iMessages servers duplicate the iMessages for as many devices as you have.
The iMessages are then sent individually to each device.
If a device has lost it registration then it does not get sent the iMessages.
Once that have been delivered they are deleted so even if you had to reset a device it cannot get back ones it did receive in the first place.
If you had a period when one device was not logged in properly and did not get iMessages but now it is again - there is no way to get the "missing" iMessages as the server does not keep them.
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