Thanks everyone for your help finding a specialist. Well I managed to find one musculoskeletal/rheumatologist specialist and one pain/musculoskeletal specialist in Auckland. Surprisingly I had seen them both before for different reasons.

They were both awesome and generally concerned. Between the two of them I had some manipulations of my neck and thoracic spine mainly and had an injection into my right foot and the symptoms have subsided somewhat especially the pins and needles. I have also been working a bit on some "mindfulness" type techniques to do with pain.

Now I have taken myself off all medication, I have eased back into my running and tennis and am no worse off for it. While I do have numb feet most of the time when playing sport and flareups still the joint pain has eased significantly. I will followup with both of the specialists again next month. But I am so happy