Diabetes: Humalog Pen?

I use the humalog pen for when i eat and obiously when my sugar is a bit high. of late I've gotten some blood inside the pen. i called my pharmacy and they told me to discard the pen. i dont have money to be purchasing more pens just because i get some blood in it. i mean, sometimes they are brand new. it irritates me and makes me want to go back to using syringes. but i love the easyness of carrying the pen around with me.
what should i do? any personal experiance? should i really be throwing out the pens with a bit of my own blood away? it just seems like im throwing away my money.
=( ive been using the pen for about a year and a half and have gotten blood in at least 12 of them.

Can't you just click in another unit or two and squirt the blood out? As long as you do it immediately and then change out your needle cap, I can't imagine there would be a problem...especially since it's your own blood...but if you are sensitive to infections this would probably not be a good plan.

Before I was on a pump I used to reuse my syringes lots of times...between a dozen and 20x, usually. I would occasionally get a tad of blood in there and that's how I handled it, just pushed hard on the plunger until all the blood was out. And with the pump it happens occasionally too where the cannula (tubing) gets inserted and I see blood. I just give myself a dose and I watch the blood go back through the tubing and back into me! Never had a problem...

I have type 1 diabetes and use this pen
http://www.novonordisk.com/images/diabet...
i think they are really good, i use the silver one for work and nobody knows any different because it looks like a real pen, they are light and Ive never had a problem with them,,

i don't know what could be causing the blood in the pens sorry :/

but yeah,, i really would recommend these novo nordisk pens, you can get them in many colours and they are very discrete, hope this helps a little.