I upgraded to OS X Mavericks and lost all my documents. How can I recover them?

Tonight I upgraded to OS X Mavericks, it asked me to create an account and now it seems I have 2 users and I have lost all my documents, photos, music, etc.
How can I switch to the previous user?
or
How can I recover all my lost files?
Thank you for your help!

THank you so much, this helped me as well! I was freaking out!

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