Can't receive or send texts? please help!

every so often my text messages don't send and I can't receive them either. either the loading bar at the top takes forever or they dont send at all. It's happening a lot more recently, sometimes my inbox is completely blank (not even showing old messages) and sometimes it says I have unread messages when I dont! I've tried using imessage, that doesn't work either just does the same. im using an iphone 5 now but it used to happen on my iphone 4 too! Ive even switched networks so I don't think it's that. I have a full signal bar, full wifi, I can get it to work if I restart my iphone but 10 minutes later the problems back. also tried resetting my network settings, please can someone help, this is really annoying! i only got my iphone last month, thanks

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