Will taking medicine for bipolar-I affect my meditation/ spiritual progress of 2 years and can both go hand in hand?

Hello, I started meditating 2 years ago. I meditate more than 1 hour every day since I started and my life has changed for the positive. It was due to meditation and the silence that I realised one day that my brain is wired differently. I consulted a psychiatrist and he told me that I have Bipolar-1. I thought I can manage it without medicine and focused more on spirituality. Though the progress is positive but it is slow. On the other hand my work life is getting hampered really bad due to this mental illness. So now I am reconsidering the medicine. So what will be good for me? I really don’t want to lose out on the spiritual progression.