Since I first posted my question, I suspect that the pain could have been caused by my eating excessive quantities of small cocktail tomatoes. Now that I have stopped eating tomatoes, the pain is much less. However, it is now in both hips - not just the right hip. I am in the process of trying to determine which foods are bad for my gout by the process of elimination - I suspect that eggs could be the culprit. The list of food "baddies" on the web sites is not universal - my cousin had bad gout for 2 years before he found out that the cause was fruit juice, which, according to most web sites, is not listed as a "baddie". I am also having my uric aid level tested to confirm that my problem is, in fact, gout and not a spinal problem with pain referred to hip joints.