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? 4 all sub users, subs Dirty?

Question is for any person that's been on Suboxone/burpronorphine.  Wondering if anyone else gets a dirty feeling while on Subs? Believe ever since around 2mg my body started to feel dirty. Skins real clammy. Best way for me to describe it is as if you were sweating all day and at the end of the day, your skin feels sticky, slimmy, etc. but you never even sweated. Wondering if everyone gets this feeling or if it's only long term users or is it only me??? Hahaha seriously though i may feel clean for a few hours after a shower but doesn't last. I never feel clean in my own skin. I never really put to much thought into it til now.  Is Suboxone that dirty "Toxic"? I know that sweating a lot can be a side effect but this is different.  
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7163794 tn?1457366813
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While detoxing u sweat and stink like a sow! In fact, it was like 25 degrees when I went to my first n/a meeting and I tried to sit alone b/c I knew I smelled bad, but more people came and sat right next to me. I was soooo embarrased! I was taking 3/4 baths a day in Epsom salts and still stunk. B/c u r detoxing its coming out of your pores. It's totally normal with detox and will eventually stop, I promise. Right now, u just have to grin and bare it.
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4810126 tn?1503942735
I want to second everything that Clong said & to add that at certain doses, both Methadone & Subs can make one sweat. This, along with weight gain & somnolence may be a sign of too high a dose. I've done both drugs & personally, found the side-effects on M'done to be more tolerable. As stated above, all the more reason to come off.
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3122379 tn?1342379185
Are you tapering?  You might be experiencing minor wd's.   I got the same feeling you're explaining, but only when I was decreasing my dose.  I lived in the shower!  Buprenorphine is some nasty stuff.  It's just as wicked as Methadone in my opinion.  There is still so much we don't know about the drug.  Sadly, we in this generation are the guinea pigs for it.  Just another reason to get away from the garbage.  
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I never had a sweat problem till i started taking subutex, now off subs, i still cant stop sweating.. haha... What the!!!
I know what you mean about feeling dirty, id shower and ten mins later, feel like i never had one. On my detox, same feeling but chemical smell as well.
I think it may just be the chemicals, or a chemical reaction to our body while on subs. Who knows. Be intersting to know.
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