Possibly figured it all out.
After yesterday's horrendous battery showcase of dying twice I decided it was time to hard reset the phone. .
Today it has been outstanding although LTE was out during the first half of the am. It came back around 1130 am and my battery was at 85%. It only dropped that far bc of a ton of text and a half hour conversation.
As of now I'm at 48%. Again that is moderate Internet use, heavy text use, Bluetooth with phone call for 20 mins. All that and still about half left.
Factory reset definitely did the trick.
Juice Defender Beta running on default.