Lost emails!

I decided to deactivate and close my hotmail account because of so many perverse junk mails.  I decided to reactivate the same day and try to block some of those junk mails.  However, when I logged back in, all of my inbox emails and saved emails were gone. It was like a brand new account, even though I used the same username and password.  Is there some way to retrieve those; there were many important job documentation emails I need.  Thanks for any help!