Third party keyboards crashing iMessage

I have a problem with third party keyboards crashing some apps - most notably iMessage. I am using PopKey, SwiftKey, and Swype (separately) and have tried including and excluding the standard English keyboard.
Crashing is intermittent and occurs on navigating to iMessage from the home scr. I see this a lot when tapping an iMessage banner notification. iMessage appears, but is completely non-responsive.
My fix right now is to open running programs and closing iMessage. When I reopen iMessage, all keyboards are accessible and we are back to normal operation.
Any fix out there? Similar experiences?

I know, right?!?
I hear iOS 8.2 will have some bug fixes. It would help if they could sort this one out. Google figured this out 5 years ago...
I'm actually surprised the feature went out with this many bugs. It really kills the UX.

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