Redmi Note 5 Pro stuck in boot loop

[8lec]

I have a RN5p which I bought from China. It was running the global ROM.
I bought it 3 months ago and until now it was working fine.
Yesterday I turned on USB debugging and tried to install ADB, but all I got was "ABD is not a recognized command" on my PC and then I assumed there was some issue with my PC and I unplugged my phone and turned off USB debugging (I used this method: https://www.xda-developers.com/insta...s-macos-linux/ and I never managed to get past step 4 cause powershell was screwing me over).
6-8 hrs later my phone's screen froze and I had to force reboot it (hold pwr button for 10s). Once it restarted it was working fine, but then it froze again, and this time it started to boot loop, never getting past the MI logo, sometimes the android with the 3 dots would show, but it usually just remains there or freezes and then reboots. 
After like 15 reboots, I managed to reach the lock screen and unlock the phone and worked fine for 30 mins then froze again.
It took even more reboots this time to get it to boot but same thing, froze after sometime. 
Now sometimes it doesn't even manage to get past the lock screen, just freezes and reboots.

Additional Notes: I highly doubt that this boot loop is bcoz of ADB as I never installed it on my phone
I checked online and my phone is running the offical international rom(checked on the mi website)
My bootloader is locked( tho I did unlock the oem unlocking setting for 5 secs just to see what happened and then locked it again, but this was at least 6 weeks ago)
Out of the 4 times I managed to get my phone running normally, it froze 2 times while I was watching Youtube and 2 times while it was locked
I have quite a bit of stuff on my phone, I would be nice if I don't have to erase all of my data.
Running miui 10.0

I would love to have my phone back to normal

All help is appreciated.

It just turned on and I allowed OEM unlocking. I think it will be easier this way. And now its back to boot looping.

[Levent]

I dont see any other way of recovering your phone other than restoring factory defaults via recovery.

[8lec]

On 10/24/2018 at 2:26 PM, Levent said:

I dont see any other way of recovering your phone other than restoring factory defaults via recovery.

Nope, tried it, doesn't work. I knew it wouldn't work but I gave it a shot anyways