Thanks for all of your advice.

I manages to do a BM yesterday after much effort (TMI, I know).

I'm taking miralax for now until my GI appt, which is on Nov 20. Miralax gives me bad diarrhea, but it's better than being stopped up.

I'm convinced that I have a pee problem as well, but I'll have to address that with the GI specialist. Stool softeners did not put any water into my colon and I think it's because of the pee issue. So maybe miralax might not work either this time around either since it's also supposed to draw water into the colon.

I can't really massage the narrowed area of my colon. It doesn't work for some reason. "Stuff" was stuck in the same spot for days despite massages. No movement whatdoever.

I am eating more fiber to be safe, and I need to exercise more to keep things "moving."