What could be causing my ear to ring whenever I hear a high pitched noise?

I’ve considered tinnitus, so unless you can show me alink that describes it as what I’m about to describe, I know, and it doesn’t seem like that is this.

Okay, so for over a year I’ve been getting very tinnitus like symptoms, a constant small lull of a ring, and occasionally a loud piercing ring for a few seconds. Recently, though, I’ve had something happen where I hear a sort of twanging sound in my ear that accompanies every highish pitched noise. So a girl saying “Hi, how are you?” is accompanied by a “twang, twang twa-twang.” But very very slightly.

This morning This happened, but my ear got VERY quiet, and then the twanging became loud in unmistakeable. Before, I sometimes thought I was imagining it, today there is no question.

Any ideas? I need to see a doctor, I think, but My mom is out of town and I need her help with insurance and hospital stuff. She won’t be back until this Saturday.

Also, this has been going on for about… nine hours now. It got better at first, and then sort of just stayed the same. It’s quite unnerving.