Corestorage - late 2013 rMBP - 500 ssd

A few days ago I got a new 2TB HDD and decided I should move my BOOTCAMP from my internal SSD to the HDD since I have more space there.
I opened diskUtil, erased the bootcamp partition, then made a big 500GB Mac OS Exteneded one .. all good, but my mac was starting to get really, really slow and would freeze every other 10 minutes depending on what I was doing.
I was running OSX 10.10.4 beta. I went to the Mac App Store and decided to download Yosemite 10.10.3 and reinstall, I thought all the problems are because I am running the beta. Anyway, I clicked on the install but it freezes with 18 minutes remaining ... lets say it only loads 2-3%.
I have been trying desperately to find a solution to this for the past couple of days.
I can't boot to Recovery HD while holding option and then selection Recovery HD .. it freezes at about 90% loading.
If I hold CMD+R sometimes it boots into Recovery sometimes not.
The only way to go is Internet Recovery. I have a Thunderbolt to ethernet cable so it is pretty quick. Now the tricky part.
I log into Internet Recovery, go to Disk Utility and see my 500 SSD, but all options are greyed out ! I can't do anything. The SSD is listed there for around 2 minutes and then it disapears. If I click on information under Disk Utility it says it's CoreStorage !!!!
If I move quickly and go to terminal I can see the SSD on a "diskutil list" command but after that I can't see it anymore, it completely dissapears.
If I perform a "disk cs list" it says I don't have any CoreSorage devices ...
I can't delete resize ...bring it back to HFS+ no matter what I do.
I've currently installed Yosemite on the external 2TB hard drive and it works ok ..but pretty slow.
Please help me ...
Macbook Pro Retina late 2013 - 15 inch - i7 - 500 PCIe SSD, 15gb Ram, nVidia 2gb
Please don't advise me to go to the Apple Store because there is none around me ..

I have already tried that, installed OSX on an external HDD and works, but it doesn't recognize my internal SSD under Disk Utility or elsewhere.
I am now in Recovery HD and this is what I am seeing
It's odd that if I let the macbook boot without hitting any key goes directly to 10.10.4 ...
It's unbelievable it doesn't show up my 500 internal SSD ..Macintosh HD
-bash-3.2# diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *1.3 GB     disk0
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         30.7 KB    disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS OS X Base System        1.3 GB     disk0s2
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *5.2 MB     disk2
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk3
/dev/disk4
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk4
/dev/disk5
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk5
/dev/disk6
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk6
/dev/disk7
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk7
/dev/disk8
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *6.3 MB     disk8
/dev/disk9
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *2.1 MB     disk9
/dev/disk10
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *1.0 MB     disk10
/dev/disk11
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk11
/dev/disk12
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk12
/dev/disk13
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *1.0 MB     disk13
/dev/disk14
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *6.3 MB     disk14

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