I had similar symptoms develop over the last couple of years. I damaged my hip a little in a fall about 20 years ago, but it didn’t start bothering me more than rarely until about 5 years ago. Went to a doc, and he said, “Yup. It’s damaged a little, but not badly enough to do anything about it yet.”
I sometimes can’t walk a half a mile without stopping because of the pain. I’ve found that naproxen works very well as a prophylactic, and that pulling my knee to my chin and holding it there for a few minutes gives me some relief in a pinch. Try putting off the steroids as long as you can.
When snowboarding 15 years ago, I did run into a tree, hip first but, that was the other hip and it hurt for a while.
Now this one is doing it and a bit worse...