Are my scenes and projects deleted or at risk of being lost if i upgrade my unity 5.3 to the newer version?

i have unity 5 already (free version) but my player is acting funny and I was recommended to upgrade to the latest unity version I think its 5.5 etc

so if I upgrade will anything be lost deleted or at risk?

please use caution in responding I am considering all replys and will use them to either back up all my projects or not

thank you

what unity does is read all your assets from the assets folder, recompile them and rework them for the current selected platform. since, for a project to survive only the Assets and ProjectSettings folders are relevant, everything else gets regenerated on deletion and put into the other folders in your project (temp etc.).
The only cullpit could be changes in the ProjectSettings Unity might have done which only ruins THEM then (happened to me during some beta versions on Unity 5.3 I think), but will not destroy your stuff.