diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
index ce1d3e0e96a..542a0319600 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
@@ -226,6 +226,10 @@ Build and C API Changes
   and refers to a constant string.
   (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`38650`.)
 
+* Exclude ``PyFPE_START_PROTECT()`` and ``PyFPE_END_PROTECT()`` macros of
+  ``pyfpe.h`` from ``Py_LIMITED_API`` (stable API).
+  (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`38835`.)
+
 
 Deprecated
 ==========
diff --git a/Include/pyfpe.h b/Include/pyfpe.h
index 5a99e397931..cc2def63aa5 100644
--- a/Include/pyfpe.h
+++ b/Include/pyfpe.h
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #ifndef Py_PYFPE_H
 #define Py_PYFPE_H
+/* Header excluded from the stable API */
+#ifndef Py_LIMITED_API
 
 /* These macros used to do something when Python was built with --with-fpectl,
  * but support for that was dropped in 3.7. We continue to define them though,
@@ -9,4 +11,5 @@
 #define PyFPE_START_PROTECT(err_string, leave_stmt)
 #define PyFPE_END_PROTECT(v)
 
+#endif /* !defined(Py_LIMITED_API) */
 #endif /* !Py_PYFPE_H */
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-11-18-15-38-23.bpo-38835.II8Szd.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-11-18-15-38-23.bpo-38835.II8Szd.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2bb84dc19b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-11-18-15-38-23.bpo-38835.II8Szd.rst	
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Exclude ``PyFPE_START_PROTECT()`` and ``PyFPE_END_PROTECT()`` macros of
+``pyfpe.h`` from ``Py_LIMITED_API`` (stable API).