I have this issue often. I know if I scratch, it will wake me up and take longer to sleep because of my body movement. If I don’t scratch, my mind only focuses on the itch. Sometimes I’ll wait 5 minutes for the scratch to go away and then I just cave and start scratching any minor itch I have on my body. Has anyone just not moved and let the itch subside or does everyone scratch?
I’m going to try both these things. The X trick sounds on par with with what I’m now going to call “The slapping it trick”, but mostly I’ve just been trying to power through it like some kind of animal without access to modern medicine and Amazon prime which is really unnecessary.