diff --git a/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberWorkLoop.js b/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberWorkLoop.js
index 98157fbe44e4..a83f9a6f2505 100644
--- a/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberWorkLoop.js
+++ b/packages/react-reconciler/src/ReactFiberWorkLoop.js
@@ -1168,6 +1168,19 @@ function prepareFreshStack(root, expirationTime) {
     cancelTimeout(timeoutHandle);
   }
 
+  // Check if there's a suspended level at lower priority.
+  const lastSuspendedTime = root.lastSuspendedTime;
+  if (lastSuspendedTime !== NoWork && lastSuspendedTime < expirationTime) {
+    const lastPingedTime = root.lastPingedTime;
+    // Make sure the suspended level is marked as pinged so that we return back
+    // to it later, in case the render we're about to start gets aborted.
+    // Generally we only reach this path via a ping, but we shouldn't assume
+    // that will always be the case.
+    if (lastPingedTime === NoWork || lastPingedTime > lastSuspendedTime) {
+      root.lastPingedTime = lastSuspendedTime;
+    }
+  }
+
   if (workInProgress !== null) {
     let interruptedWork = workInProgress.return;
     while (interruptedWork !== null) {
@@ -1202,6 +1215,9 @@ function handleError(root, thrownValue) {
       resetContextDependencies();
       resetHooksAfterThrow();
       resetCurrentDebugFiberInDEV();
+      // TODO: I found and added this missing line while investigating a
+      // separate issue. Write a regression test using string refs.
+      ReactCurrentOwner.current = null;
 
       if (workInProgress === null || workInProgress.return === null) {
         // Expected to be working on a non-root fiber. This is a fatal error
@@ -1769,6 +1785,19 @@ function commitRootImpl(root, renderPriorityLevel) {
     remainingExpirationTimeBeforeCommit,
   );
 
+  // Clear already finished discrete updates in case that a later call of
+  // `flushDiscreteUpdates` starts a useless render pass which may cancels
+  // a scheduled timeout.
+  if (rootsWithPendingDiscreteUpdates !== null) {
+    const lastDiscreteTime = rootsWithPendingDiscreteUpdates.get(root);
+    if (
+      lastDiscreteTime !== undefined &&
+      remainingExpirationTimeBeforeCommit < lastDiscreteTime
+    ) {
+      rootsWithPendingDiscreteUpdates.delete(root);
+    }
+  }
+
   if (root === workInProgressRoot) {
     // We can reset these now that they are finished.
     workInProgressRoot = null;
diff --git a/packages/react-reconciler/src/__tests__/ReactSuspenseWithNoopRenderer-test.internal.js b/packages/react-reconciler/src/__tests__/ReactSuspenseWithNoopRenderer-test.internal.js
index 716999d697a5..966fc653ca12 100644
--- a/packages/react-reconciler/src/__tests__/ReactSuspenseWithNoopRenderer-test.internal.js
+++ b/packages/react-reconciler/src/__tests__/ReactSuspenseWithNoopRenderer-test.internal.js
@@ -3597,4 +3597,52 @@ describe('ReactSuspenseWithNoopRenderer', () => {
       </>,
     );
   });
+
+  it('regression: empty render at high priority causes update to be dropped', async () => {
+    // Reproduces a bug where flushDiscreteUpdates starts a new (empty) render
+    // pass which cancels a scheduled timeout and causes the fallback never to
+    // be committed.
+    function App({text, shouldSuspend}) {
+      return (
+        <>
+          <Text text={text} />
+          <Suspense fallback={<Text text="Loading..." />}>
+            {shouldSuspend && <AsyncText text="B" />}
+          </Suspense>
+        </>
+      );
+    }
+
+    const root = ReactNoop.createRoot();
+    ReactNoop.discreteUpdates(() => {
+      // High pri
+      root.render(<App text="A" />);
+    });
+    // Low pri
+    root.render(<App text="A" shouldSuspend={true} />);
+
+    expect(Scheduler).toFlushAndYield([
+      // Render the high pri update
+      'A',
+      // Render the low pri update
+      'A',
+      'Suspend! [B]',
+      'Loading...',
+    ]);
+    expect(root).toMatchRenderedOutput(<span prop="A" />);
+
+    // Triggers erstwhile bug where flushDiscreteUpdates caused an empty render
+    // at a previously committed level
+    ReactNoop.flushDiscreteUpdates();
+
+    // Commit the placeholder
+    Scheduler.unstable_advanceTime(2000);
+    await advanceTimers(2000);
+    expect(root).toMatchRenderedOutput(
+      <>
+        <span prop="A" />
+        <span prop="Loading..." />
+      </>,
+    );
+  });
 });