I encrypted a large drive with BitLocker and it will take forever to decrypt and it freezes my programs

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I have a Windows 10 Pro. Yesterday I turned on BitLocker on my 903 Gb (used space) drive without knowing what it will cost me. The initial encryption process didn't take long, but then when I tried to decrypt it back it took forever. If Microsoft says every 1 minute 500 Mb is decrypted, I will have to wait 30.1 hours (I did the math) and that's very unacceptable. Most of the stuff on my pc just doesn't respond anymore and freezes because of the decryption process - my browser, file explorer, task manager, control panel, you name it. So if I turn on decryption, it renders my PC unusable. As of

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