iMessage difficulties beginning last night

I have been having a lot of problems since yesterday evening around 8PM in Orlando, FL on my 64 6s+ trying to send and receive iMessages. I keep getting "Failed to send" errors, even though the other person said they did in fact receive them as iMessages. It also attempts to send every message as a text, but then when I go to my computer, all of the messages my iPhone identified as sent via text, actually sent via iMessage in reality. I have soft reset and toggled iMessages on and off numerous times. I am about to do a clean restore. Anyone else experiencing problems?