TWRP recovery issues

I'm having a new issue with recovery. So for some reason I decided it would be a good idea to try to flash twrp via the twrp app to see if it would fix the inconsistency of twrp loading/not loading. Stupid decision. Twrp stopped working completely. It would load to the menu but was unresponsive. It also kept the phone from booting past the galaxy screen. I tried odining twrp 2.8.7.1, 2.8.7.0, 2.8.6.0. No change. So I odined the of7 tar, updated to ofe, odined the ofe rooted kernel. Phone booted and worked fine. So far so good. Then I tried odining the 2.8.7.1 recovery. Same issue occurred again. I have no idea why... So I had no choice but to repeat the whole tar/update/root process to get the phone back up and running. Now I am just rooted on the stock ofe and can't figure out how to get the recovery to work so I can get back to twisted rom. I even have a backup, but I can't restore it without booting into a working recovery. Any ideas on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.