Syncing contacts with two iphones

Hi, my girlfriend recently got an iphone and we synced her iphone along with mine on my itunes account, which I think was a mistake! Now I have synced my phone I have lost all my contacts. Can I get them back? Won't they be saved somewhere on my Mac?

Used as recommended, the iPhone synchs your contacts to a supported contact manager program on your computer like Outlook (Windows) or Address Book (Mac), or with a cloud service like MobileMe or Google. Relying on your phone as a sole place to store your contacts is a very bad idea, as phones can be easily broken, lost or stolen, or the data can become corrupt.
By having your contacts synched with one of the services above, you greatly decrease the chance your contacts will be lost.
You might be able to restore your phone from a previous backup and get some contacts back, but any new contacts since that last backup and current will be lost.
I've included a copy of the iPhone User Guide and I strongly encourage you to read through it.
Best of luck.
GDG
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf

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Restoring: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
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see here the procedure that worked for me:
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