ICloud deleted all my contacts off my iPhone

I just created an iCloud account to see what it is and to help me store all my information and stuff. I have a MacBook Pro and an iPhone 4s. On my phone, I clicked sync everything on my computer to the icloud, and iCloud put all my contacts from my computer onto my phone. I realized that these were really old and never used contacts, so I decided I didn't want contacts to be synched using the iCloud. I turned off the button in my iPhone settings that synched contacts with my phone, and an option appeared: "Keep on My iPhone" or "Delete from My iPhone." I thought this just meant if I want to keep on my phone the contacts taht were put there from my computer, or to remove the contacts from my phone that were just put there. I clicked delete from my iphone, and now suddenly every contact on my phone, regardless of if they were already on there or if they were just put there from my computer via iCloud, was gone.
Basically, I thought I was deleting only the contacts that were just put on my phone from my computer via iCloud, but I actually deleted every single one of my contacts on my iPhone.
My last iTunes back up of my phone is from September, so thats 4-5 months of contacts I'd still not have.
Is there any way I can get these contacts I just accidentally deleted back?
Any response would be helpful,
Thanks.

Thanks, yeah I called Apple Customer Services and the guy said that the only thing I can do is restore my phone from my latest iTunes backup.
The screen I got when this debacle happened literally said: "What would you like to do with the previously synched iCloud contacts on your iPhone?" It's so poorly worded, I thought it was just referring to the contacts that were just put on my phone from my computer, hense the "previously synched iCloud contacts" but when I was on the phone with the guy he was saying that I misunderstood the screen.
I don't think I'm crazy, they could have worded it better and made it more clear they meant ALL contacts deleted, not just the ones synched from iCloud.

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