After syncing with icloud for the first time, all my contacts disappeared

Recently for the first time I signed up for Icloud and tried to sync contacts with it, but after this procedure all my contacts disappeared from my iphone, i treid searching online for the solution but couldnt get back my contacts, when I logged in to icloud.com, even contacts list was empty. Any help regarding this will be appreciated.

I have had a similar problem, except all of my text messages are gone too! My contacts have slowly started to come back, but it appears that my most recently added contacts are gone, and my messages are also gone still.

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