diff --git a/compiler/rustc_hir_analysis/src/collect/type_of.rs b/compiler/rustc_hir_analysis/src/collect/type_of.rs
index 208fa238f80..87a04820f7e 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_hir_analysis/src/collect/type_of.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_hir_analysis/src/collect/type_of.rs
@@ -449,7 +449,8 @@ fn infer_placeholder_type<'tcx>(
         })
         .unwrap_or_else(|| {
             let mut visitor = HirPlaceholderCollector::default();
-            if let Some(ty) = tcx.hir_node_by_def_id(def_id).ty() {
+            let node = tcx.hir_node_by_def_id(def_id);
+            if let Some(ty) = node.ty() {
                 visitor.visit_ty(ty);
             }
             // If we have just one span, let's try to steal a const `_` feature error.
@@ -465,7 +466,15 @@ fn infer_placeholder_type<'tcx>(
             }
             let mut diag = bad_placeholder(cx, visitor.spans, kind);
 
-            if !ty.references_error() {
+            // HACK(#69396): Stashing and stealing diagnostics does not interact
+            // well with macros which may delay more than one diagnostic on the
+            // same span. If this happens, we will fall through to this arm, so
+            // we need to suppress the suggestion since it's invalid. Ideally we
+            // would suppress the duplicated error too, but that's really hard.
+            if span.is_empty() && span.from_expansion() {
+                // An approximately better primary message + no suggestion...
+                diag.primary_message("missing type for item");
+            } else if !ty.references_error() {
                 if let Some(ty) = ty.make_suggestable(tcx, false, None) {
                     diag.span_suggestion_verbose(
                         span,
diff --git a/tests/ui/macros/issue-69396-const-no-type-in-macro.rs b/tests/ui/macros/issue-69396-const-no-type-in-macro.rs
index 45a30857413..c200a1fd0b4 100644
--- a/tests/ui/macros/issue-69396-const-no-type-in-macro.rs
+++ b/tests/ui/macros/issue-69396-const-no-type-in-macro.rs
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ macro_rules! suite {
             const A = "A".$fn();
             //~^ ERROR the name `A` is defined multiple times
             //~| ERROR missing type for `const` item
-            //~| ERROR the placeholder `_` is not allowed within types on item signatures for constants
+            //~| ERROR missing type for item
         )*
     }
 }
diff --git a/tests/ui/macros/issue-69396-const-no-type-in-macro.stderr b/tests/ui/macros/issue-69396-const-no-type-in-macro.stderr
index ef49a0bc2b5..4342d7d88f5 100644
--- a/tests/ui/macros/issue-69396-const-no-type-in-macro.stderr
+++ b/tests/ui/macros/issue-69396-const-no-type-in-macro.stderr
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ LL | | }
    |
    = note: this error originates in the macro `suite` (in Nightly builds, run with -Z macro-backtrace for more info)
 
-error[E0121]: the placeholder `_` is not allowed within types on item signatures for constants
+error[E0121]: missing type for item
   --> $DIR/issue-69396-const-no-type-in-macro.rs:4:20
    |
 LL |               const A = "A".$fn();
@@ -40,10 +40,6 @@ LL | | }
    | |_- in this macro invocation
    |
    = note: this error originates in the macro `suite` (in Nightly builds, run with -Z macro-backtrace for more info)
-help: replace this with a fully-specified type
-   |
-LL |             const Abool = "A".$fn();
-   |                    ++++
 
 error: aborting due to 3 previous errors