MM update has ruined battery life and bluetooth, has it happened to you?

I updated my phone (completely stock) to MM as soon as it came out. The first thing I noticed was my battery life became terrible. I gave it a few days, still sucked. I did multiple hard resets and cleared system cache, still sucked. Then a couple weeks later another massive update. I figured it was a fix for all of the initial problems. Not only did it not fix it, it made it WORSE! More hard resets, still the same crappy battery life. MM has been the worst update I've experienced on Android so far, and that is saying a lot. Is it only me or does every update seem to get worse and worse. Dare I say its time to look into a new operating system? This is ridiculous....

Now, if I leave bluetooth on, it becomes the number 1 battery drain and will kill my battery in a few hours even if it isn't connected to anything (this NEVER happened in any previous update). I made the mistake of buying another battery thinking it would help. Nope, battery life still sucks.

If I have bluetooth on and I connect to my car, it works fine but if I turn my car off and go into my office, the bluetooth symbol still shows I am connected even though I am not.

I checked the Verizon community forum and many others are reporting the same thing. So far VZW has blown everyone off and said "have you tried our battery saving tips".....What a bunch of BS!

Who else is having these problems and what can we possibly do about it?