Personal Hotspot running iphone5 battery down

My new Iphone5 seems to be stuck running Personal Hotspot without actually have any capability to enable or disable it, causing early drainage of the battery. has anyone identified a fix for it? Reading some comments by other users regarding the same issue on previous iPhone version indicated that Apple is aware of the problem and plans to develop a patch for it!
Any guidance is greatly appreciated.

Hi Kaz,
Yes. My hotspot works now, but a side effect of the strenuous troubleshooting endeavor my iPhone is now a little glitchy, e.g., cannot access my gmail account, and prompts me to choose a WiFi access point every time I try to access my emails.
As it turned out, there's nothing I could have done from my end to solve this. I spent a long time with the Verizon tech support. The tier 1 guy went through many troubleshooting procedures, told me to do various things on my phone while he checks how the system respond from his end, e.g., turn on roaming, restart phone, and etc. After he tried his best to no avail, I was transferred to Tier 2 tech support. He was able to apply scripts and patches to my phone and fixed my problem.
I don't recommend taking the phone to the Verizon store and expect any decent support. I spent a long time waiting and all they could do was telling me that the tethering is on and reset my phone a couple of times before making me call customer service, which I could have done anywhere, without the wait. However, you will need a second phone to call with while your iPhone is undergoing troubleshooting.
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You said--- I was not ever told to consistently drain my battery before recharging
You should never do that on purpose, whoever told you that had it wrong or you misunderstood something
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http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
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