As most days offer me variability in my PN feet & hand sensations, I do find that gripping the steering wheel too hard (or exercise equipment if I’m at PT) can aggravate the PN in my hands. I try to “shake it off”. I loosen my grip as much as I can do safely, rotate the positions of my hands on the wheel as practicable, and make sure I take any opportunities to stretch my fingers or flex my wrists. I try to do these whether I need to or not, and it generally seems to help me.

@flashgordon51 and @dbeshears1, I appreciate that you have genuine concerns about driving with neuropathy in your hands. I also have pretty significant numbness, pain, and tingling in both of my hands from SFN (small fiber neuropathy), I began to notice that I was gripping the steering wheel pretty intensely. It finally came to me that I was concerned about losing control because of limited normal feelings. Here are two things that have helped.

1. Twice a week I have MFR sessions with two therapists. They split their work for my hands and feet. This means that one begins and the other finishes. For my hands, they lock fingers with my hand and perform a flexing of the fingers. That sure helps.
2. I use a topical Medical Cannabis balm on my hands to reduce the tingling and numbness.
3. My bonus is that over the last few years I have become more able to tolerate the neuropathy symptoms to some extent as the SFN progresses. I was surprised at how much we can learn to tolerate.
Have you tried any of these helpful possibilities?

May you both be free of suffering and the causes of suffering.
Chris