All SMS / Texts dissappeared and now can't send or recieve!

I recently had an error while upgrading to my iPhone 5 to ios 6.1.3 and then all of my text messages (all 43,000+ of them over 5 years) are gone! I can't send any text messages and when a text does arrive all I can see is the name of the sender, the message body is blank. I have restored from backup and I have even done a complete restore from firmware and then from backup and still no messages. I am a physician that uses my phone daily to communiate with colleges and this is debilitating. When I search the web, it looks like I'm far from the only problem with this. How do I fix this?
I am using a MacBook Pro on Osx 10.7.5 with iTunes 11

Well - I've finally found out that because of ios 6's new SMS database structure, there is no way to recover ANYTHING on my phone from my backup (not just my SMS messages) since the backup also includes the corrupt SMS rendering it 100% useless. They gave me the choice of operating my phone with all my apps, settings, etc without the use of instant messaging (yeah --- that's an option???) or restoring a blank image of iOS6 and losing all data, apps, etc. and reinstalling one by one all of my apps, organizing, resetting, etc. - something that took over 30 hours when it happened 3 years ago when I had half of the apps and settings. So, because there was a glitch in the syncing - I have now lost all of my messages and in addition having to spend over 30+ hours reinstalling and reorganizing all of my apps. I'm a physician and I don't have the luxury of losing that much time again and there is too much valuable data in my messages that I thought was 'backed up'. And I found out that if I had not trusted Apple and upgraded to 6.1.3 in an attempt to fix this - that I could have had someone jailbreak this and get all of my information off here.
Whatever you did Apple to the new sms database in ios 6 - it *****. I know Apple couldn't give a #### about how this affects <1% of their users, but offering zero solutions (and the above are not 'solutions') to issues like this is how they permanatly lose customers (including me).

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