Ringtones Not Showing

Over the years I have bought ringtones, or turned songs from my iTunes library into ringtones. When I go to my library's ringtones section now, it is empty. Nada. Nothing there at all.
But I am not using a different phone than the one on which I purchased all of the tones. (At least, I don't think I am.... ) there have been iTunes updates (many!) since then but that's all. However, as I said there is nothing there nor are they showing in the area where you can go to see past purchases. (Anyway, within that I don't even see a category for ringtones. I checked music but nothing there. )
Help? I see so many similar questions but nothing exactly fitting this. I had typed up this long, detailed question before but when I tried to post it, it said that I didn't have permission to post??
PS: About the inability to copy/paste here on these forums - over the years I've had the strangest issue whenever I try to post here. I'll be typing & suddenly my cursor will appear at a different point on the page & I'll end up typing something in the completely wrong paragraph! Its never happened anywhere else & it seems to happen whenever I come here. That doesn't even make any sense, does it?!? Its so strange but its happening right now.

I just want to add: If there are parts of my post that are vague or seem to not make sense, my whole issue - and the reason why I rely upon my tones all being different - is that I have a memory loss issue. It was really difficult to re-write this post while making sure to include everything that I typed up originally & to not repeat myself, etc. etc. etc.
So basically, what happened was I typed it all up & it wouldn't let me post....what I forgot to mention here was that when I tried to paste my original question here, there was no option for pasting. Among other strange things.

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