My iMessage for some reason will not let me activate my phone number.

I have had an iPhone 5 for almost a year now, and had not had any problems with it until about a month ago, when it suddenly stopped letting me send iMessages from my phone number. I have tried everything from turning iMessage on and off, to resetting my network settings, to doing a hard reset on my device. When I text friends, they recieve two different conversations - one from my phone number and one from my apple ID through iMessage, depending on if it was a text or iMessage. The option to choose my number from iMessage is there, but is greyed out and will not let me choose it, and any attempts to reset it just result in a "waiting for activation..." message that doesn't go anywhere. I have checked with my carrier, Verizon, and it is not something that is coming from their end...and from what I've seen, a lot of other users have been having this problem since the ios7 update. Is there any way to fix this?

Hi pweisbrod!
Try using the troubleshooting steps in the following article to help you troubleshoot this iMessage activation issue:
iOS: Troubleshooting FaceTime and iMessage activation
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4268
Thanks for coming to the Apple Support Communities!
Regards,
Braden

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