icloud sync deleted all my voice memos without warning

I recently opened my voice memos app, to check my precious voice memos. Something popped up that asked "would you like to sync with icloud?' and i thought well yes i want to save all these extremely precious voice memos and so i clicked 'yes' and then poof all my voice memos disappeared in the blink of an eye. It was devastatingly sad. Now it says theres 0 voice memos. Theres not even a 'recently deleted' folder in the app.

I don't have those voice memos backed up anywhere, I thought they were just safe on my iphone. Are they somewhere hidden in my phone storage somewhere I just can't see?

When asking about the icloud sync it should at least say 'heads up, this is going to DELETE ALL YOUR VOICE MEMOS IF YOU CLICK YES"

just feeling really frustrated and dismayed. please is there anything i can do to get these back?