Existing letters disappear in pdf when I add text box

So I get letters in existing text disappearing as soon as I type anything in a new text box. I have acrobat XI pro running on windows 8.1.
My pdf document looks fine. All the text is there that's suppose to be there. I need to add text boxes on certain pages so I click on 'add text', I click on any area in my document and the text box appears. As soon as I type anything at all 'random' letters disappear throughout my document. I say random because it's an l here, an e there, etc but it's the same letters from the same words that disappear every time. A month ago I was working on the same document doing the exact same thing and had no trouble adding text without having letters disappearing.
I've been playing around with it for several hours now and am ready to punch a hole through the wall.
Any ideas?

Thanks for 'all' the help (I kid, of course) but I figured it out on my own.
Tried many, many things and what worked in the end was increasing the dpi of the pdf when it was first created. I had it set to 300dpi which was the same default setting for all the other documents I created and manipulated with no problem but for whatever reason it doesn't work now. I tried it at 600dpi and it's fine. All the letters stay put when I add new text boxes. Probably other dpi settings would work also but I haven't tried.

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