Sides or Alergies(allergies)?

Was talking with my PA the other day about some of the sides I've had and some I read about here and she said that some of what we're looking at as "sides" are and aren't.  A lot of people seem to be experiencing heavier than normal sides now and at varied times of the year.  She thinks, (no empirical data, just observations from a PA in a busy hep practice) that allergy season is responsible for a lot.  She thinks that while not sides from the meds, even people otherwise without allergies are made more sensitive to seasonal allergies and may not recognize them as such.  Still sounds like sides to me, but I can see what she means and it would explain a lot of fluctuation in sides.

Kim