Retrieving Lost Data

Newby here. We somehow lost data in a table with 5 years of work in one particular field; Coaching Comments. Its a Multi Line Text field that we recently updated the form on, but that field did not change.

A few days ago, the field and actually the whole coaching section disappeared. We dont know how or why, but its imperative to get that data back as we are a regulated industry that needs to show those comments to authorities when asked.

I added the field back in, but it did not repopulate the old comments, just allowed for new ones.

My questions are:
Is it possible to find that data again somehow?
I thought by adding in the same field again that the data would repopulate automatically, could it be I used the wrong verbiage, even though it's just 2 words?

Any insights or help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Joe M.

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Joseph M.
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