Calendar (reoccuring birthdays) clog up my space!

Hi,
after updating to ios 7 I had 8GB free space. This space was eaten up by events in my calendar. My calendar is pretty much empty besides some birthday events which were probably imported from facebook. It now seems that these reoccuring events clog all my free space up and I can't get rid of them. I have tried everything but I can't delete them. I turned all the access to my calendar off, even deleted facebook but those events are still there.
I read another thread where this was written:
"Steps to fix:
1.  Turned off Push and then set the Fetch settings to Manual to prevent any updates to the calendars
2.  Remove/Turn off the calendar with the events.  This can take a LONG TIME.  I had to let this run over night. Alternatively you could try and modify the event by adding an end date"
Unfortunately it did not help.
Please let me know if you have any idea how I can resolve this problem as it is driving me insane!
Thanks a lot in advance!
Cheers
soul

My phone has been unusable for 3 days with this infinite growth of the calendar database.  BTW I don't know that it is birthdays but it is the exact same symptom.  I've done two factory resets and restores from backups.  Unfortunately something about iOS7 and my phones calendars are causing the problem.  I've now deleted every email and calendar source and still after a restart the storage grows until none is left. 
I wish someone had a real solution.  I guess I'm going to call applecare and see if I can get an answer -- if they will talk to me.

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