TS4268 imessage won't activate???

I turned my imessag off a month ago while playing around - and have never got it to activate since.
I turn it on - sometimes it will pop up with "Use your Apple ID for iMesage" and sometimes it'll go straight to "Waiting for activation". 
I have noticed that even when its saying "Waiting for activation" I can go to "Send and receive" and it'll have my ID at the top (logged in) but where it says "You can be reached by imessage at" it will have a tick by my email address, but my phone number is grey (cant select it).
Below that it doesn't have "Display as from" (cant rememer what it says exactly) but where you select what number or email address your imessage is being sent from.
Driving me nuts, have tried everything on the tips/tricks page. HELP!!!!!!!!!

Read through the support document that you linked to the forum from. It says that if you follow all of the steps and it still will not activate after 24 hours, to contact Apple support.

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