Forum:My character is gone!

So today, I was kicked off of a game for not having a mic. After that I tried to get into a few other games upon which I was disconnected before even getting into the game lobby (the game didn't really give me a valid reason for it). Afterwards my friend wanted to play splitscreen. I then found that my level 46 siren was gone (this is the only charater I use with the exception of a very low leveled berserker and soldier). I tried resetting the game, checking if it was searching for charaters in the right location, but it didn't turn up. Why is my siren gone, and is there any way to get it back? I looked this up and apparently this happened to a few other people, so is this a very rare glitch? Someone please help.