Note syncing issues between my iPhone and Macbook Air

I have been using notes on my iPhone and MacBook for some time, and they seemed to be more or less syncing, but recently I noticed a note on my iPhone did not show updates that I had made on my MacBook, which is where I do most of my updating. I checked my phone to make sure syncing was turned on, and then did the same with my MacBook, and the settings seemed correct on both, although I did need to login to iCloud on my MacBook, so that may have been the problem. After that, they did eventually sync up, but unfortunately, seem to have synced to the older versions of the notes on my iPhone. Now they seem to be syncing correctly again but who know how many notes and data I lost when it synced to my iPhone, and why would iCloud have synced to older versions? Wouldn't it always look for the most recent version? There is one note in particular that I update daily on my MacBook, and never on my iPhone, and have now lost 25 days of data that I have no way to recover, unless I can figure out how to recover an older version of the note. Is there any way to do it?