It usually takes three months after hernia surgery before you can have intercourse. Patients after hernia surgery should be careful to avoid overwork, coughing, strenuous exercise, constipation and heavy labor for three months. Some of these factors of increased intra-abdominal pressure can lead to recurrence of the hernia. If you have intercourse without healing well, it may lead to increased intra-abdominal pressure and cause a recurrence of the hernia, so you should try to avoid it. Primarily, hernia patients are prone to hernias because of a weak abdominal wall. Currently hernia surgery consists of two main ways to repair a hernia, one is traditional hernia repair and the other is hernia patch tension-free repair. Either type of surgery is to strengthen the abdominal wall, and coitus, strenuous exercise and heavy labor can increase abdominal pressure leading to possible failure of the surgery hernia recurrence. Follow your doctor’s instructions after hernia surgery.