Iphone 5s not receiving imessages or sms after ios 8.1 update

Since updating to iOS 8.1 this morning I have not received any iMessages or SMS, despite my wife having told me she has sent numerous messages to me today! Anyone else have this problem, and any ideas as to how to resolve it?  Thanks.

I had this problem too. Upgraded this morning and didn't receive any messages all day. Got home and looked at my iPad and found that I'd missed several messages.
Turned out that iMessage was switched off. Don't know why that would be the case...  but I went into Settings -> Messages, saw that it was now off, switched it on, and all is back to normal.

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