Potential Impaction

[Gorgon]

Hey guys -- you helped me out with feeding my Jungle Carpet many months ago and, from the bottom of my heart, I deeply thank you for that. Everything worked out and my ~1.5yr old female has been eating consistently ever since.

Question I have now regards constipation: it's almost certainly too early to be worrying about this but she didn't poop/pee with her shed late last night (4/20) like she usually does. But there's a caveat to this:

She had a *perfect* shed but it was over *really* fast. I mean, her eyes were only blued-out for maybe 5 days. A process that has usually taken her 2 weeks was lessened to just 1.

The only thing I can think of that's enabled this is that I've put an infrared basking spot (50W) under her hide... and she loves it. It's her favorite place to be now. I mean, she perches among the high branches at night but boy does she love to just be in her hide now.

The basking spot is about 1' below the glass and velcroed to the underside of the glass is a hand towel covering that entire area. Then, she has 6 layers of paper towels between her and the glass. Hence, it never gets too warm (believe me, I've felt this area obsessively) and she seems perfectly content.

Also, her appetite recently has been positively ravenous. Long story short, it feels to me like this underside basking spot is accelerating her metabolism.

My question to you fine folks is: is this ok? Have you ever heard of someone doing this? Her bowel movements have been very regular just right up to this point where I expected to see feces in her shed and didn't find any. Hence, could the basking spot be causing any kind of impaction?

As always, any feedback and/or further questions would be profoundly appreciated. She is my only snake and she is my life.

EDIT: Her last poop was ~ 1.5 to 2 weeks ago just before she went into shed. The underside basking spot has been under her enclosure for exactly 2 months.