mass effect le deleted saves after updating the ea.app

[darthmilash]

hi. I have a very unpleasant situation.
I have played 76+ hours of mass effect le since the first chapter.
on a normal day, I launch the game through steam, as I always did, and I get an error from ea.app with the inability to start the game, before that I have started fine.
this happened to me on 01/26/23
After rebooting pc, I found that the game offered me to create a NEW GAME.
my saves were deleted from the documents folder without a trace. CLEARLY. how did this happen and what should i do?
how do i get my game saves back from 01/25/23???