Lost all my notes :((

I Am freaking out! I somehow lost all of my notes but 15 on my IPad Air last night. I noticed a new acct for my notes that I haven't used and had never set up and that is the ICloud. It shows no notes there though so I'm just extremely confused where they are. All of my email accounts are set up with the "notes" tab turned on. But I'm pretty sure Yahoo and AOL have always been the two that were always used. If I turn the others off I get a message saying they will all be deleted. And I don't want to lose what few I have left. ANY SUGGESTIONS- PLEASE!!!!