Filevault forever encrypting

I updated to Yosemite this last weekend. In the process I chose to initiate the file vault encryption process. I thought I had completed the installation successfully, other than my iCloud verfication code not working. I started looking into things becasue my computer was lagging at every function.
Turns out Filevault is still trying to encrypt my hard drive 5 days later. My computer has been restarted several times during this time. The progress bar shows it 95% done - and will jump to 100% for about 5 seconds, only to retreat to 95%. I can not cancel there process or turn off filevault until it finishes. I've left my cmputer on in an attempt to give it time, but no luck.
Any ideas? Can I cancel the process somehow? Anyone else having this issue?

I'm having the same issue. I'm not sure if it's because my primary drive is SSD or not but the encryption goes from 4 hours to 30 days. It has made my computer useless - 3-5 minutes for each function.
I opened Activity Monitor to find Security & Privacy only using 2% processor and very little ram so I'm not sure why it has slowed my computer to a brick.
Unfortunately, I can't stop the process until it is done. It is then that I need to figure out if I want to leave it on or not. I'm scared once it finally gets done it will take just as long to decrypt all the files. I've even deleted as much as I can including my entire Adobe suite and other programs I can easily reinstall. There has been no change in the time remaining to encrypt.
I've left my computer on for 4 days - something I never do - but need this process to be done so I can actually continue to service my clients. This is a major issue for me and is now costing me money. One would think with the OS update with the option so prevalent in the set-up process that it would have been tested on many HDD set-ups.

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/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         499.2 GB   disk0s2
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   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *498.9 GB   disk1
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/dev/disk3
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   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk3
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         32.3 KB    disk3s1
   2:                 Apple_HFSX Copias de Time Machine 2.0 TB     disk3s2
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+-- Logical Volume Group 4048693C-AF1A-499A-963A-E77D520A6DA6
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    Status:       Online
    Size:         499248103424 B (499.2 GB)
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        Encryption Type:         AES-XTS
        Conversion Status:       Converting
        Conversion Direction:    forward
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        Fully Secure:            No
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