Lost 2-Step Verification Recovery Key

Today I got an email saying two apps were downloaded from a device I have never used, so I went to appleid.apple.com to reset my password. However, once I entered my email and password the webpage asks for my Recovery Key, which I have lost.
I looked at an Apple support page and they said that as long as you have access to a trusted device, then you can sign up with those. However, the first thing the sign-in page wants after my password is my Recovery Key, with no option to use my trusted device.
Could anyone suggest possible ways to solve this problem? All 3 of my devices were restored about a month ago, so does that remove them from the trusted device list?
Thanks

There are three main things you have to chose from for identification.
Tursted Device
Password
Recovery Key
Generally, to modify your account you need at minimum TWO of these. Any less, and you are in dire straits my fiend.. Did you not print out the recovery key when suggeseted? Do you remember setting up the recovery key?
There is by default at least a 72 hours wait period before this can be done, to give you time to respond to a hijack.

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Firstly, as the title implies, this is a double-whammy of a problem, and obviously, it is very much my fault. The reason I'm bothering to post this, however, is to find out if anyone else has had this issue and where they are at with it.
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I set up two-step verification on my Apple ID about a year ago as I thought it was a good idea. I wrote the Recovery Key down as it told you to, and put it in a folder full of other important documents. In a epic mental lapse, however, I now remember later throwing out that folder, forgetting about my Recovery Key. Ya, that is my fault, I'm and idiot. Anyways...
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I understand that this level of security is probably the whole reason for the two-step verification in the first place, and I again concede that it was extremely foolish of me for forgetting about and discarding my Recovery Key, but a few things still don't make sense...
1. Why would they put a "Lost your Recovery Key?" link on the password recovery page when a password is needed to reset the Recovery Key itself?
2. As far as I can remember, Apple, in their briefing of how two-step verification works, did not bring up this scenario, which is probably relatively common. They DO mention that they can't help when you don't have access to two of the three necessary things for recovery, but they never brought up the apparent exception of if the account is disabled, in which case having two of the three things needed is not enough. I don't understand how they couldn't have mentioned this scenario.
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