iPhone "deleted" all my messages

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I woke up today and had low memory in my phone, received some pictures from a friend and it did the "download" icon thing on a picture when it doesn't load for iphone. Deleted some stuff, turned off the phone, turned it back on. The pictures went from a download option to question marks. Told my friend this, and then they sent them again and I could see them. Then they sent another png file and it wasn't showing up. Told them to screenshot it and try again, didn't work, after at least 3 attempts.

I restarted again to see if it'd pop up. I go to my texts and ALL of my texts are gone. Go to my memory and my messages are still taking up memory, but I can not see them. Go to search and I can see the texts, but if I click I can not access them. What's the deal?

How do I get them back? And no, I didn't have a back up. And no, so far, restarting is not working.