What does an eyeglasses prescription include? Mine only has the "power"?

fruity

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Okay so a few months ago I went to a new eye doctor and they did a full check up. I looked through the big machine thing and he asked me which one is more clear 1 or 2, etc. My prescription for my contacts and eyeglasses he put down as -1.25 in each eye. I don't know what my old one was for my eyeglasses (barely wore them) but for my contacts my old one was -1.50 each eye. I just ordered some new glasses from Target and handed them my prescription which only said -1.25 for Left and Right eye on the card. Well I got them and they are really wacky to me, makes me dizzy, stuff is narrower/wider than they should be, eye strain, etc.

I did some research and apparently your prescription is supposed to have like axis, pd, and something else? Mine didn't, I have a feeling the girl at Target quickly took these measurements b/c I tried on the sample frames that I wanted and she marked them with a marker where my pupils were and stuff like that and measured it with a ruler... I feel like it should take more than 30 seconds to do... is this why my new glasses are so disorienting? because she messed up on the measurements?
 
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