Why does my phone send iMessage very slow?

Upgraded to the iPhone 6 about a 2 weeks ago.  Just recently i started to notice that roughly once or twice a day I am being forced to restart my phone because the message app is running ridiculously slow.
Essentially when the event happens I'm about to send a group message via iMessage and the loading bar at the top will go across the screen and stop around the 80% mark. It will stay there for about 3-5 minutes before sending the message.  Keep in mind that this happens on AND off wi-fi.
I never had any issues like this before on my 4s which used the IOS 7. The new phone is updated to IOS 8.1.2.
Any ideas why this is happening?  Is it a carrier issue? Phone software issue?
Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks!

My daughter is having the same problem, and it started happening very recently. There are only two things she's done recently that I know of that might have triggered this.
1) She cleaned up a lot of space on her phone, including a bunch of Messages. (You'd think this would help.)
2) She upgraded to iOS 8.3
It's frustrating her to death (teenager that can't text!).

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