Music disappearing from phone

Music that I have purchased from iTunes directly from my 5S has disappeared from the phone music library. I'm not sure when exactly it started, but they are disappearing at random. I never connect my phone to a computer for syncing, only to charge (connect to my work computer to charge, but it is not linked to an iTunes account on this computer). The music does not all delete at once, but a little at a time. At first I thought I was crazy and was thinking of music that I had downloaded to my iPod and not my iPhone, but now I'm certain that songs that have been purchased & downloaded directly to the phone are no longer there. They are in my cloud to re-download, but I need to know why they are randomly disappearing one by one from my phone. It's been old and new purchases that are disappearing. I'm still operating on OS 8.1.2 and have not yet downloaded 8.1.3.

I just now noticed my iphone 4s/ios7 doing the same thing. Insanely frustrating!
I synced last night as I had some new music I wanted on my iphone. all of the new music is playing but anything that was previously on there is deleting itself when I try to play it.
This is maybe the first time I've synced since the 7.0.2 update. I guess I'll to manually remove all of the music and then add it back in to see if it works.
I've been generall disappointed with the ios7 music app and have been considering a music app called in:play as it looks to have better navigation functionality. This may be the impetus I need to try it out.
An insight to this problem would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

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In the Messages app, in the drop down menu go to Messages > Preferences. Once there click the Accounts tab and then remove the iMessage account and that will stop all messages associate with your phone number from showing up on your computer.
OS 6 and OS X Mountain Lion: Link your phone number and Apple ID for use with FaceTime and iMessage
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5538
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