The incision sites from my RNY and complication surgerys still hurt 5 months out.  Surgeon says I may be in pain for a year or more.  I don't want to spend the next year on pain pills.  Does anyone recommend a topical treatment lotion or cream for the pain?

You may want to try the RNY board - this one is specifically about complications.

I am somewhere around 10 years post op.  Since the surgery I lost about 200 but  after 2 csection I have gained back a significant amount I just found out through an ent I have reflux so I'm wondering do I need to get further tests to make sure it's not something else? what type of tests should I get?

I also had a myriad of issues post rny. After 3.5 years of suffering I had my surgery takendown. It was the best decision I could have made. It resolved many of my issues but I still struggle with memory issues, fatigue, peripheral neuropathy and pain. But ALL my problems got better which in turn tells me they were all related to my rny.
I hope for the best for you

something similar has happened to me. I had my RNY8 years ago. I have had several hetnia repairs with mesh. over the summer I became very ill and was in the hopital for 2 weeks, many test, low blood count, infection, low iron and sevetal other systoms. no one could fiqure what was going on. I know the abdominal pain was awful., not even pain m would last long. finally before the holidays the fiqure it all was possibly caused from the mesh in my abdominal. I bwen telling them something was wrong. because I co fe knots and pins. things that didnt feel normal. well 10 days ago I had open hetnia repair and mesh removal. they went in and that top mesh was a mess. it was folded and buckled. now I not sure if is the mesh that has a recall. I am still in enormous pain. I fell like more than when I was in the hospital. I sm passing gas, but have so much pressure. cold and hot sweats. I have a belly binder it helps alittle. I just want the pain to go.