How do I restore photos from Photostream Album

Hi, I have my photostream turned on in settings and I had over 400 photos in my photostream album on my iphone 5. All photos along with the photostream tab suddenly disappeared 2 days ago from album in the photo setting. I backup my phone on icloud and cant find these photos neither can I determine how to restore the photostream tab. Despite all that I have done, I am only seeing the following albums, All Photos which don't contain the photos that I had in photo streams, Videos and Recently Deleted, which also don't contain the photos that I had in photo streams. I hope that the photos were not lost as I recently also upgraded to iOS 8.1.2.
Can someone explain to me how to restore these photo as well as the photostream tab since photostream was never turned off turned off and remains on. Do I have to reset the phone to an earlier back up?

I have followed your advice and I have restored the photo stream tab by disabling the iCloud photo library.
Is the restored album empty? And none of the photos are in your "All Photos"? Are you conncted to Wi-Fi, signed in with the correct Apple ID? And the iPhone is charged? It may take a while, until the photos will download again from iCloud, if they are still in iCloud. However, photos older than a month may no longer be in iCloud.
My Photo Stream is not meant to store photos; you are supposed to download the photos to your Camera Roll during the month they are in iCloud. And Photo Stream is not included in your iCloud backup, only your Camera Roll is included in the iCloud backup.
So you can neither retrieve older photo stream photos from iCloud nor from iCloud backups.
Have you saved your iPhone photos to a computer and could restore them from there?

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