Constant anxiety about ectopic beats

So I am 30 years old -Male. Two months back I started experiencing few ectopic beats everyday. I got scared initially and One afternoon I thought I was having a heart attack so I rushed to the ER where I had an ECG and Troponin-I test. Both were normal and I came back home. Two days later and still suffering from ectopics I visited a cardiologist and he did an Echo of my heart which he said was normal though in the report 2-3 things were just at the border of the reference range indicated in the report. One thing he told me was that I had Marfanid Habitus but since My echo was normal and I had not manifested any problem till 30 years of age, he was not concerned about it. He prescribed 40 mg of propanol ,a beta blocker daily for 10 days. It worked and for a month I hardly suffered from any ectopics. But since last three days I have again started expereincing few ectopics and I started taking 20 mg of propanol daily and it has reduced them a bit.

One more thing I would like to tell is when I first expereinced ectopcis it was after masturbating and at that time for a week I had masturbated extensively. I did not tell this to my cardiologist as I felt a bit embarrassed but I still feel that it was excessive masturbation which brought these upon me. However i have stopped masturbating ever since but ectopics are not going away.(

To add more to it, I have developed severe health anxiety and I keep looking at my echo report and imagine things like what if those values which are borderline normal start increasing or what if echo was not that accurate. Further i hesitate to exercise as I feel i Might have a cardiac arrest. I keep googling about cardiac health whole day everyday and I am a nervous wreck these days.

Wrote this here just to vent out my inner frustration. ANY suggestions or advice would be much appreciated. THanks.

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