  We calculate the strength of symmetry restoration effects in highly
non-equilibrium states which can arise, for example, during preheating after
inflation. We show that in certain parameter range the one-loop results are
unstable, requiring summation of multiloop diagrams. We solve this problem for
the $O(N)$ model in the large $N$-limit and show that the symmetry restoration
may be less effective than what predicted by the one-loop estimate.
