I believe you are being sinfully scrupulous.  When do you first talk after receiving Communion?  Do you really believe that extra time is changing anything?

Consider how much talking the priest has to do immediately after receiving Communion.  If this is a problem, the Church would never have allowed the priest to open his mouth until well after Mass was over.

At my chapel we have a Low Mass so after Mass we always pray the Leonine prayers. But I don't feel comfortable praying them so I remain silent. Why? Because usually I have just received Holy Communion and I don't want to open my mouth or speak for fear that I may spit particles of Jesus out of my mouth and onto the floor. So If I do not receive Communion I say the prayers with everybody else but if I do receive I remain silent. Does anyone else have this problem?

That is probably the all time worst reason I ever heard of for not saying the Leonine prayers.

I believe a sufficient amount of time has passed from the reception of Communion to the prayers after Mass that would allow you to recite the prayers after Mass without blaspheming the Blessed Sacrament.

Keep calm and pray on, my friend.

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That is probably the all time worst reason I ever heard of for not saying the Leonine prayers.

So after I spit Our Lord all over the floor should I step on him and blaspheme also? I was expecting to be called scrupulous but I thought that others would at least understand my reasoning.

Sit near the front.  That way you will receive Holy Communion ahead of the crowd and will have more time for the host to desolve.  This way you will have four to eleven minutes between Holy Communion and the beginning of the Leonine prayers.

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I'm curious what your priest told you in the confessional.  

He would probably tell you to swallow sooner.

Yes, we say the Leonine prayers after our Low Masses, and no, I'm never fearful of spitting out particles, because the few minutes left between HC and the end of Mass -- after Last Gospel and all -- is sufficient time for the host to have dissolved.  Whatever remaining particles would be left, if any, would be very tiny and actually difficult to spit out.  It would take significant effort to do so.

All of which tells me that you should bring your scrupulosity to the Confessional or to Spiritual Direction.

Myself not speaking is just a personal devotion of mine that I started doing out of respect for the Blessed Sacrament.....

...Because usually I have just received Holy Communion and I don't want to open my mouth or speak for fear that I may spit particles of Jesus out of my mouth and onto the floor.

Which is it? is it a personal devotion or are you afraid you may spit particles out?

When you receive communion, the host should be dissolved in your mouth and into your stomach in well under a minute - any longer than that and you are doing not receiving Our Lord properly some how or something is physically wrong  - do you have dry mouth all the time which prevents the host from dissolving or something?