Does this sound suspicious?

Hi all,

A bit of my background:
I am 61, now. I never drank alcohol. l've smoked a fair amount a lot of pot and still do.
My body type is slim, 5'6" tall at 135 lbs.
These days, i am a light cigarette smoker since the past 2 years. I restarted smoking a little bit, recently.

I've had gout in my left foot since i'm thirty, which i manage with diet.

Since 2009, when i quit smoking, i started a plant-based diet lifestyle which i maintained for about 7 years - from 2009 until about 2016 i was plant based and not smoking cigarettes.

I've always been an all-season cyclist, so i am in pretty good shape. Every winter for many years, i've been shoveling snow and making occasional snow slides for the kids in the area and even made a skating rink a couple of years ago and i had to CARRY buckets of water downstairs from the second floor to water to ice. Lots of work.
All of this to give you an idea of my overall health

About ten years ago, i started having trouble peeing.

When i found out from my doctor a couple of years ago, that my prostate is a bit enlarged, i started talking saw palmetto supplements which does help a lot. However, it's not perfect.

I find i'm gradually having more trouble "emptying" completely, but, i do drink a lot of liquids (green tea and orange juice) in the mornings. It leaves me full of liquid.

I need to drink liquid to hydrate myself but i sometimes feel like i don't want to drink because i'll pee less and not have to go through this new and annoying routine i have to do now, in order to pee.

What i did at first when i kept waking up to pee was i kept a container beside my bed and (now) when i need to pee, i would lay on my side (in bed) and use the container, and then place it on my night table. I don't have to stand in the toilet and wake up - i can relax in bed and go back to sleep easier.

Here's where it's getting tricky;
Lately, when i need to pee, i sometimes feel the need to have a bowel movement, and that could happen whether i just emptied my bowels or not - it's not always like that but it's "safer" to simply sit when i use the toilet to pee. It's tricky, and quite deceptive, at times lol.

Also, when i am out somewhere on my bike, and even if i just had a few short, "successful" visits to the washroom, by the time i get home, i am struggling to get upstairs fast enough. I am "dancing" as i lock my bike up.
I am undoing my belt and removing clothes as i rush up the (apartment building) stairs just to save time.
And sometimes when i finally get to the washroom or grab a "nearby, purposeful, convenient container", nothing comes out.
Nothing comes out, unless (i've learned) i lay on my side with my bed-side container and, sort of, lay my tummy on the container in such a way as to put a bit of pressure on my tummy area to help move the bladder or whatever is inside to help the pee flow. And it always helps and i am able pee - however, sometimes ONLY when i lay down - or should i say, i have best results while laying down on my side. Otherwise, i might be sitting on a toilet for a long time, massaging my tummy area with my hands to help the pee flow (and, massaging, like that, helps).

Years ago, i found a red workout ball in a box of a Special K cereal that you fill up with water. It's about the size of a softball, Well, i kept it for some reason. And i find i can wedge that ball under my tummy area as i lay on my side, and doing that, helps the flow start. Handy little ball, after all.

Okay, now, here's where i am a bit worried and why i am talking to you on this forum.

I used to (until recently) wear my belts sort of tightly to keep my shirts tucked in right and all that. Also, to help keep my snow pants up to stop them from dragging on the ground, in the back, when i walk around.
My lower back started hurting a bit on one side - the same side as my gouty, left foot.
Now, i am NOT SURE exactly why my left side of my back has been bothering me. Maybe it's because i have been being sedentary lately and sitting, watching the internet for hours on end. I haven't tried to go swimming or running, like i used to do for years, because i keep stopping to "try" to pee.

The pain is not going away.

Today, i rubbed some Heat ointment on my lower back, and near my spine on the left side, i felt there, a bump, on the bone that isn't mirrored on the other side of my spine.
It's more on the back of the pelvis and beside the L5 (to give you an idea).
It's not on the spine, but beside it.
So, when i wear my belt too tight, if you put your index finger two inches ABOVE your navel and draw a line around your gut to your back, as soon as your finger reaches your back, that is where i feel this discomfort.
Maybe my kidney is acting up on the same side as my gouty, left foot?

I went to the doctor last year and had all the regular blood, urine and stool tests done and they never called me back for anything.

Maybe i should try stretching that side of my back? I haven't been stretching a lot. Maybe, it's a muscle reacting to being lazy and then being compressed by the tight belt?

I don't have fatigue, weakness, or any blood in my urine or semen. I have no trouble with erections and ejaculations.
I do find after having an erection or an ejaculation, i can pee strong like i am twenty-years-old - for about 40 seconds. Sometimes, i do THAT just to have a long pee.

I do find if i gain 5 to 7 extra lbs, it's makes peeing more difficult. When i am at 130 - 135 lbs, it's generally much easier to pee
I am taking a 320 mg saw palmetto with a cranberry extract supplement daily and it's been doing a good job so far.
Anyway readers, that is where i am at.

I am wondering if anyone has experienced what i am going through. Maybe, someone is exactly like me and can give me some advice.

Tomorrow, Wednesday, i will make an appointment with my doctor for complete checkup and see what's going on with me.