Yeah, I initially felt the same way bro. The excitement of gaining muscle, and losing bodyfat, but as time goes on I've become more concerned with the health aspect of what we do. Like I said before I've had some nasty injects in the course of things that make me somewhat nervous about infections, nerve damage, and muscle damage. I've had several infections from gear, gyno, damaged a nerve in my chest from injecting prop/fina that caused some pretty severe pain, numbness, and loss of contraction ability, and a good amount of scar tissue. I've never resused a pin, and I'm cautious with sterility and injection technique, and I've always taken my anti-e's so I mainly worry about the gear use in itself causing problems.
So you gotta ask yourself the question how much is that pinch worth to you? These days I wont touch most of the compounds I've used in the past and I'm going to keep my dosages low. There's no need for me to take 2+g of AAS, because I'll most likely never compete and I don't want to be a super freak. I just want to be just above the norm and just a little bit beyond my natural ability. Maybe 205-210lbs @ 8-9%bf. That's about 15 to 20lbs lean lbs away for me.