Recovering lost contacts from icloud

I recently made my own Apple Id and switched off my parents to be on my own account. When switching over on my phone it asked me if I wanted to keep my contact data from my iphone. Mindlessly reading I accidentally hit delete, thus deleting all of my contacts. I did not have my contacts saved in the cloud I don't think. Just wondering if there's anyway I could recover them?

Hi Drew,
When you say you were on your parents' account, do you mean that your iPhone had the AppleID that your parents use on it? How much have you done using your new ID? Are you still using the same iTunes library that your parents use?
Can you give us a better idea of how you were set up on both the phone and on iTunes and how you are set up now?
What about iCloud? Before and after?
GB

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