How do I enable my cell phone number in iMessage?

I recently had to change my apple ID and ever since then the iMesages that I send have been coming from my email address/Apple ID.
I no longer receive iMessages that people send to my cell phone number.
When I go into the iMessages settings, my cell phone number is grey and my email address is blue with a check mark next to it.
iMessage is stuck on "waiting for activation."
One more side note.. I am in Switzerland and I usually don't live here but I need my cell phone number to be registered on iMessage to communicate with my contacts.
Can someone please help me with this? Is there any way to solve this?
If so, please let me know. I would really appreciate it.
Thanks!!

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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4268

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