Seriously Adobe - by default you lock me out of my own document I just created??

I need help! So I am NOT new to Acrobat Pro - I have been using it since version 7 - but I am new to the new XI version and the whole creative coud thing and am a little ticked off at the moment... here's what's going on...
I made a form yesterday. Used to doing that in Acrobat pro but now it opens 'forms central'... okay, no problem, got used to it, liked the interfaced, worked great through creating my form fields and layout. Nice. Wanted to see what the doc would look like as a pdf that someone would actually fill so I saved it as a pdf and also printed it out so I could edit in paper in hand as I find I catch more errors that way. So now today I go to open the form and make some corrections in my fields add something here delete something there, and I can not open the form for editing. It tells me I can't do that. So...Adobe you're telling me that I cannot edit my own form that I created just yesterday.... you're telling me that your default settings are to secure the document without any prompting so that it is locked for editing, even to the person who MADE it? Seriously?? Am I missing something here? I must be. I do know how to go to tools then forms then eidt, but it is saying I am locked out of editing it... but I MADE it. And I wasn't prompted to enter any security settings at all when I saved the pdf in the first place and did not manually make any settings, which I am fmailiar with from version 9. So now... Do I have to open or log into Forms Central again to be able to open the document I created myself for my business and saved on my computer? What is going on??????? I don't even know how to 'login' or 'launch' forms central - it is not even an app listed under the apps in my creative cloud login, so how to I get there, other than opening a new document, which is not what I want to do. I want to edit the form I already made. Somebody help! this can't be a dead end.
What is wrong here?
Thanks,
Lee

No, Nancy, I'm sorry it wasn't. I was able to login to formscentral but under 'myforms' nothing is there.
I just want to make a form in acrobat. I never asked for 'forms central' in the first place, it just took me there. And now it seems liek they are just trying to sell upgrades to additional features. I am very unhappy with how Adobe has made the simple use of a product into something requiring multiple logins and web access and difficulty just saving and opening a document. Very frustrating. And I am paying MORE than I used to for CC now rather than just the Adobe Acrobat pro download.

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