Loss of photo stream when changing iCloud E-Mail

I switched e-mail providers. My Apple ID was changed months ago with no problem.
Today I wanted to enter the correct e-mail address for iCloud. I followed the instructions of several posts on here and made the change on my iPod touch. (Also have and iPhone and iPad.) I clicked on merge as I was instructed to when restarting the account with the new e-mail address. However only 143 of almost 1,000 photos re-appeared in photo stream.
I'm not going to change the information on the iPhone or iPad until I can get this figured out.
Comments? Suggestions?
Thanks,

iCloud only keeps photo stream photos for 30 days, even though up to 1000 photos will remain on your devices until deleted.  When you re-enabled photo stream you only received photo stream photos from the last 30 days as older photos are no longer in iCloud.
To change your iCloud ID, go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account, then sign back in with the new ID.  This deletes the account and your iCloud data from your device, but not from iCloud.  Provided you are signing back into the same account, your iCloud data will reappear on your device when you sign back in.
However, to avoid losing photo stream photos, before deleting the account save them to your camera roll (if not already there).  To do this, open your my photo stream album, tap Edit, tap the photos, tap Share, then tap Save to Camera Roll.  Be sure to do this on your other devices first.
To get the missing photos back on your iPod, create a shared photo stream that includes them on one of your other devices and invite yourself as a subscriber (see http://help.apple.com/icloud/#mmc0cd7e99).

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