diff --git a/source/as-promise/index.ts b/source/as-promise/index.ts
index 2a4291b8f..2d0da2379 100644
--- a/source/as-promise/index.ts
+++ b/source/as-promise/index.ts
@@ -149,6 +149,8 @@ export default function asPromise<T>(firstRequest: Request): CancelableRequest<T
 				const newBody = request.options.body;
 
 				if (previousBody === newBody && is.nodeStream(newBody)) {
+					error.message = 'Cannot retry with consumed body stream';
+
 					onError(error);
 					return;
 				}
diff --git a/test/post.ts b/test/post.ts
index f331169b9..4ecc00295 100644
--- a/test/post.ts
+++ b/test/post.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import delay from 'delay';
 import pEvent from 'p-event';
 import {Handler} from 'express';
 import getStream from 'get-stream';
+import FormData from 'form-data';
 import toReadableStream from 'to-readable-stream';
 import got, {UploadError} from '../source/index.js';
 import withServer from './helpers/with-server.js';
@@ -336,3 +337,31 @@ test('throws on upload error', withServer, async (t, server, got) => {
 		message
 	});
 });
+
+test('formdata retry', withServer, async (t, server, got) => {
+	server.post('/', echoHeaders);
+
+	const instance = got.extend({
+		hooks: {
+			afterResponse: [
+				async (_response, retryWithMergedOptions) => {
+					return retryWithMergedOptions({
+						headers: {
+							foo: 'bar'
+						}
+					});
+				}
+			]
+		}
+	});
+
+	const form = new FormData();
+	form.append('hello', 'world');
+
+	await t.throwsAsync(instance.post({
+		body: form,
+		headers: form.getHeaders()
+	}).json<{foo?: string}>(), {
+		message: 'Cannot retry with consumed body stream'
+	});
+});