I tried confirmtx about 10 hours ago and haven't had any luck with that either. Afterburner's app said it couldn't confirm my tx and then gave me a website address that didn't work to explain why.
I feel like my btc is just going to sit in the queue forever. This is a real bummer.
Hey I stayed up almost all night reading up and watching youtube vids and I fixed it myself!

Because I've sent it via bitcoin core I was able to abandon the stuck transactions and resend one trans again with much higher fee (300 satoshis/byte) but had an error something to do with duplicate in the mempool so I just left it and went to sleep. This morning when I woke up it went through right away and confirmed!
I was able to do this because of OP's helpful information! Thank you OP!!
Edit: I send my second trans with 280 satoshis/byte fee and it got confirmed in 6min!
