Entire iMessage Thread Disappeared

I am using a 4s with iOS6 and yesterday I had an entire iMessage thread disappear. I was in the middle of a text conversation with a friend with a year's worth of message thread and as I hit send on a message, I watched all of our previous messages vanish. There was no Load More Messages button at the top anymore. Our conversation continued and I didn't have any problems sending or receiving messages after. I've had no other text threads affected either, just this one. I've restarted the phone and done a soft reset several times to no avail. How can I get the previous messages back? Also, I am hesitant to backup from restore since I will lose all the new stuff on my phone since my last backup.
Please help!

Howdy eea1980,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
If you have a recent backup in iTunes or iCloud, you can resolve the missing conversation issue on your iPhone 6 by restoring device as described in this article:
Back up and restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch using iCloud or iTunes - Apple Support
Take care,
-Jason

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