So, ds1 started taking the veggie omega and dha supplements just under a month ago. I had a thread a week or so ago about how I felt there had been a positive effect on us all, not just ds1 from taking them.
He seems happier (as in less despondent and anxious about anything and everything) is sleeping much, much better and is more sort of 'here' than spacey, which you would think is a good thing - but ... I don't think he's handling it well. He seems to have completely lost the ability to tune the world out and is getting really irritated by noise and movement around him, especially because its stopping him from being able to read.
Ordinarily, he can immerse himself in a book and forget the world exists and this is how he destresses and is a bit like his safe place. I get the feeling from him that now he can't find anywhere to escape to.
Apart from him now constantly telling his brother and sister off for making a noise while he's reading so he can't concentrat, he has been telling me that he just can't take anything he reads in. He says its like he gets to the end of the sentence and hasn't actually absorbed one word of it - so he is having to go back and re-read things several times and even then still isn't taking it in.
The end result is that my boy, who was previously never seen without his nose in a book, has just stopped reading. He had the new Beast Quest series and a subscription to Nintendo magazine for his birthday last Sunday and hasn't read any of them. Today a back issue, special edition of Nintendo Magazine all about Pokemon Black and White arrived and he hasn't even tried to read it. He's pretty upset about it and I don't know what to suggest.
This morning I asked him to read out loud to me and he did say it went in a little better, but he hates reading out loud and its not feasible for him to do it all the time, especially as he uses his books as his escape from the world. He used to be able to sit in a room with his brother watching tv and his sister playing noisy games and still be able to lose himself in a book. This morning he exploded at his brother for counting something in the same room as him while he was trying to read. 
Could it be the omega supplements that are causing it? I was wondering if they have woken him up a bit and brought him more into our world and now he can't adjust to all the noise, movement and activity etc around him that he was previously oblivious to.
If it is that, am I best to persist with the supplements and hope he adjusts over time, or am I being cruel by doing that?
The only other thing I can think of is whether its to do with his eyesight again. We haven't had his appointment for the eye clinic through yet, but I was wondering whether it could be some sort of worsening of his visual problems, which are making it harder for him to concentrate, so that the effort of reading is superceding the comprehension of what he's actually reading, iysqwim.
I am so worried about him, not only has he stalled in maths and literature at school, he's now not reading, which was at least one way that he was able to still learn and progress.
Any ideas?